Tom Dennis
Grand Forks Herald
Helping local law enforcement is all well and good.
But that’s not why the United States beefed up the Border Patrol along the Canadian border to 10 times its pre-Sept. 11 size, an expansion.
Instead, that expansion from Maine to Washington was done for one and only one reason — the same reason why people now need passports to cross the border; the same reason why trade between the two countries remains impaired.
The reason was to better prevent terrorists from crossing the border.
How goes that struggle?
That’s the question Americans should be asking, because lots of money is being spent and manpower is being deployed based on what Washington thinks is the answer.
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