...there are many more multiple opportunities for Islamist terrorists to enter the United States from Canada than there are from Mexico. Crossing the Canadian border in untracked areas, unlike the Mexican border, is neither terribly hazardous nor even particularly daunting.
However, most terrorism experts will tell you that terrorists prefer to travel incognito with fake papers and are most likely to try crossing through a regular port of entry with those papers. Remote border crossings are a real risk for such operatives because they become more exposed out in the open, rather than simply mingling in with the thousands who cross borders legally every day.
Perhaps more to the point, the presence of Al Qaeda cells in Mexico is virtually unknown, but the presence of Al Qaeda in Canada is very well established indeed, as the Ahmed Ressam case demonstrated vividly.
In other words, if you're genuinely concerned about terrorists crossing our borders, you'll increase funding for port-of-entry security and for monitoring open areas -- on the Canada border primarily.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Blame Canada
David Neiwert on border crossings.... Teleporter technology, security status symbols, subways to everywhere, al Qaeda, and Minutemen. Oh, and our own decrepit fear. The pointless battle of the 21st century.
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Lost in a translation perhaps but, isn't the Canada-U.S. border almost as internal as the border between New York and New Jersey? There is a mind numbing number of differences between Canadian and Mexican borders, though, or am I making one more of my many wrong assumptions?
No, Pekka, you're completely wrong. Terrence and Philip are clearly trying to destroy the American way of life. The Frito Bandito just makes Americans fat, which is part of the American way of life.
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