Along a 268 mile stretch of the border near El Paso, the Border Patrol has over 2,000 agents. By comparison, they have only 1,000 agents assigned to protect our entire 3,987 mile long border with Canada.
As John Cooney of the General Accounting Office says of our northern border, "That border is so long, frankly, the security on that border has really not increased too much since the French and Indian War."
Our border with Canada is twice as long as our border with Mexico. It has hundreds of small roads (as pictured above), and thousands of places where anyone can just walk across without anyone noticing. And there is no dangerous desert to cross or river to swim or fence to climb over.
This shows just what a lie the Republicans are telling us about our southern border. They want us to believe there is a serious risk of terrorists crossing our southern border, and that is why we must build a fence there. What a lie!
There is not a single instance of a terrorist crossing our southern border. Why would they cross there? It's far more dangerous to cross our southern border, and with the several thousand agents assigned there, it is far more likely they would be caught trying to cross there than the northern border.
On the northern border, they could walk or drive across unseen and then merge into US traffic within a couple of miles. That's much easier!
It just shows us that the proposed southern fence has nothing to do with national security. If it did, they would be proposing an even longer fence for our unguarded northern border. No, the fence is not aimed at terrorists, but at brown-skinned economic immigrants trying to feed their families (who pose no danger to the American populace).
It is simply more evidence of the racism and bigotry in our country, and in the Republican Party.
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