Border Vigilance: It's Not Just For Mexico Anymore

Mass illegal border crossings are all the rage here in the northeast as well.

A series of early morning raids in Toronto, Windsor, Detroit and New York City has broken up an international human smuggling ring, the RCMP said today.
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Police are alleging that migrants from China, Korea, Albania and Eastern Europe arrived in North America and were then smuggled across the border hidden in trunks of autos, on rail cars, in the backs of transport trucks and on small boats.

Canadian authorities, bless 'em for helping us out, got the focus of the problem a little mixed up.

“There was a complete disregard for the safety of these migrants who paid thousands of dollars to a gang for the 'privilege’ of being treated worse than cattle,” said RCMP spokesman Insp. Glenn Hanna.

Yes, Canada, that's tragic news for those illegal migrants.  But isn't the primary problem here the threat posed by potential neredowells who, for mere thousands of dollars, get the privilege of illegal entry into the United States?

Imagine... for less than the price of a cup of coffee (every day for a few years), you can sponsor a deserving terrorist.  Every month, you can track the progress of your terrorist through threatening video and audiotapes, as he celebrates his holy jihad against your western oppression.

This slug of arrests is at once en- and discouraging.  By all accounts, it was a very successful operation, but it also points just out how easily and regularly people are slipping through our porous northern border.

“We have no idea who were coming over,” said Stephen Murphy, the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. “There could have been drug dealers, terrorists and God knows who coming in those boats, cars and trains.”