US EditionNational View: Smarter Solutions Needed to Secure Canadian Border
UNITED STATES-CANADA NORTHERN BORDER, INCLUDING MICHIGAN AND MAINE, JUN 23 – Kristi Noem prioritizes enhancing deportations and reallocating resources amid a 81% rise in northern border encounters reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- Homeland Security leader Kristi Noem addressed a Detroit audience over the weekend regarding efforts to enhance security along the United States' northern border with Canada.
- Noem and U.S. Rep. John James cited rising illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and terror watchlist encounters as causes behind increased border enforcement efforts.
- Noem highlighted the need for enhanced enforcement along Michigan’s land and Great Lakes borders and called for congressional approval of additional DHS funding through the recently proposed legislation backed by the Trump administration.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded nearly 199,000 encounters along the northern border last year and reported 108,000 such encounters from October 2023 to March 2024. In 2023, 85% of all land border interactions involving individuals on the terrorist watchlist took place at the northern border.
- These developments suggest a shift toward proactive, intelligence-driven enforcement requiring cooperation with Canadian leadership and more resources to restore border security.
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National View: Smarter solutions needed to secure Canadian border
While attention often focuses on America’s southern border, a quiet crisis has been unfolding along its northern border, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seen alarming increases in illegal crossings, drug trafficking, and encounters with individuals on terrorist watchlists. As difficult as securing the southern border has been, the northern border is more than twice as long and crosses a variety of challenging terrain. While the admi…
Northern border security a 'priority' for Trump: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
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Kristi Noem, Trump allies warn of ‘northern border crisis’ in Detroit
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and fellow Trump administration officials are “not letting our guard down” at the US-Canada border, she said Friday in Michigan. This story also appeared in Bridge Michigan “Many more” transnational gang members are now attempting to cross into the country’s northern border amid ramped-up security at the southern border with Mexico, she said during a panel discussion in Detroit…
Washington, 23 Jun (EFE).- The Secretary of National Security of the United States (DHS), Kristi Noem, begins this Tuesday a three-day trip through Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala in which he will strengthen ties with the authorities of those countries. His displacement will begin in Panama, where this same Tuesday he will have a bilateral meeting with the Panamanian president, José Raúl Mulino, the Minister of Public Security, Frank …
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: Northern border security a 'priority' for Trump
(The Center Square) – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke in Detroit over the weekend, discussing how the Trump administration is working to secure America’s northern border with Canada.
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