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Wall. Wall. Wall. What about Canada?
America's northgern border should be a bigger concern when it comes to stopping potential terrorists, Politico's Lauren Gardner writes:
While President Donald Trump fixates on the threat at the U.S-Mexico border, House Democrats plan to use their agenda to investigate the terrorist threat at the northern border.
There are nearly 200 vacancies for Border Patrol agents at the Canadian border, and the Department of Homeland Security has warned that homegrown terrorists can easily -- and legally -- cross the U.S.-Canada border without being noticed.
This terrorist threat has caught notice of Democrats now running the House Homeland Security Committee, which will investigate the porous nature of the Canadian border and whether the border agency has the right resources to catch would-be terrorists from slipping into the country unnoticed.
"Where is it that, you know, there's porous areas in our homeland security structure?” said Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), who is expected to lead the House Homeland Security Oversight and Management Efficiency Subcommittee, told Politico. "And I think looking at the Canadian border is definitely a place I want to go.”
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