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Most of the attention has been on the Mexican side of the border, but there are signs that the Canadian side of the border is heating up. Not only is it going to be a major vector for illegal aliens leaving the U.S. to head to Canada, drug trafficking rose 600% on the northern border. Some of that is due to the Trudeau government and some due to the focus on the southern border by an overwhelmed Border Patrol.
The danger has been rising for some time and it appears to have now gone hot. Lethally.
Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday afternoon while conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 91.
It happened around 3:15 p.m. near the Coventry-Newport town line. Sources tell WCAX the agent was fatally shot in the neck and died. One of the suspects was also killed and another was wounded.
Details are still coming in, but I would suspect we’re looking at a drug trafficking operation.
People tend to think of Canada border drug smuggling as being about marijuana, but that’s outdated. Pot no longer needs to be smuggled across the border, but instead it’s becoming a vector for fentanyl and meth.
That’s a much uglier and more violent business.
Add on the growing presence of Chinese organized drug crime in New England that has been neglected by the federal government which had already turned deadly in Maine, and we’re looking at a whole other border war.
Canadians should be able to get control of this now that Trudeau is on the way out.
Trudeau’s knee-jerk response to Trump’s conditional tariff threat was retaliation instead of cooperation. Anything to avoid heavy lifting. But as Canada is not an autocracy, herculean efforts are now underway to secure the border, in spite of lame-duck Trudeau.
He didn’t resign, he ” intends” to step down when a “suitable” replacement is found. Never. He is planning a Anti Trump push to get reelected. Maybe if we elect a Trudeau for the 8th time it will be different.
There is nothing the government can do to stop people from taking drugs and stemming the flow of drugs to them. The “war on drugs” is a complete and total failure. It has regressed to a point of ridiculously small returns on the money and resources thrown at it for decades. An immensely expensive game of Whack-A-Mole. I’ll be honest and say I don’t know the solution but something, anything different needs to be attempted.
The problem with the war on drugs was that there have been nowhere near enough fatalities among the producers, importers, and major distributors.
Importing, producing, or large scale distribution of Class A prohibited drugs should be a death penalty conviction, commuted to life if the perpetrator sings like a bird and gives up their entire operation.
At a lower level, stop letting the pricks plead down to low level possession of marijuana charges when they have been arrested and charged with multiple much more serious offences.
How is it exactly Canada’s problem if the northern border is not secure? Most countries do not prevent people leaving, only people entering. If entry into the USA is to be tightened at the border, shouldn’t this be done by the Americans? Does Trump want for Canada to screen people leaving the country?
A grown up country doesn’t need the neighbor to tell them that the fence is broken and needs coordination to repair.
Like with Mexico, Canada must control the entry points into Canada. Those are much easier to control in Canada than Mexico, because they are all by plane or ship. Mexico and Canada are allowing people to transit their countries to invade the US. And they are also responsible for, and must also control smugglers operating in their country.
If they don’t, then they are either complicit, or it’s not really their country. Either way, an act of war is being committed against the USA. It’s like Laos and the Ho Chi Minh trail in the Vietnam War.
“Does Trump want for Canada to screen people leaving the country?”
In fact, something like that does happen – in both directions. Canada and the US share data on criminal convictions. There was a particular case of a Canadian couple who were crossing into the US but were turned back because of some offence on the husband’s record. They were all upset and were demanding to know why the Canadian government was passing such information to the Americans.
It was pointed out of course that we would certainly want to know when a US citizen with a criminal record was trying to enter Canada but in order to get that information from the Americans, we had to share our own data with them.
A mutually beneficial arrangement for both countries.