Trump’s new “border czar” concerned with Canada’s lax border security

By Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a new “border czar” who promises to be tough on illegal immigration and has challenged Canada to secure the US-Canada border amid high levels of terrorist suspects being caught.

During a local broadcast on Channel 7 News in Waterford, New York, on Monday, Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Trump’s border appointee, discussed America’s northern border with Canada. Homan, from West Carthage, N.Y., just southeast of Thousand Islands, Ontario, said he won’t let Canada’s weak border security impact his home.

“Raw numbers, the southern border, of course, has more crossings, but percentage-wise, you got a lot fewer resources up here in border patrol agents,” he said.  “So they’re overwhelmed, and they’re not catching a lot of them because there’s only so much the few resources up here can do.”

He said the US’s northern border poses a “big national security vulnerability” after President Joe Biden and his border czar Kamala Harris sent half of its border patrol agents to the southern border.

Homan vowed to hire more northern border security agents and end catch-and-release policies, which have illegal immigrants being arrested and then released on promises to appear in court, which he said in many cases they “never” do.

“If you’re going across the northern border from St Lawrence River, the lake or on foot, they need to know right from the start, you can come, but you’re going to be arrested,” he said. “You’re not going to be released; we’ll remove you. It’s not going to be like the Biden administration…You’re not walking away. We’re going to lock you up.”

Homan said the US-Canada border is a “huge national security issue” as “special interest aliens,” or immigrants coming from countries that sponsor terrorism, use Canada as a gateway to the US.

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