I’m trying to clear out bits of news piling up on my desk. Here is a report from CNS News that caught my eye. We already know there is much back and forth between Somalis across our northern border. One of the most interesting cases—now swept under the rug—was the case of the Canadian Somali who died in a Denver hotel room with enough cyanide to kill hundreds just before the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
From CNS News:
Washington (CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has apprehended more suspected terrorists on the nation’s northern border than along its southern counterpart, CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin said Tuesday.
“In terms of the terrorist threat, it’s commonly accepted that the more significant threat” comes from the U.S.-Canada border, Bersin told a hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security.
Bersin attributed the situation, in part, to the fact that the U.S. and Canada do not share information about people placed on their respective “no-fly” lists. As a result, individuals deemed a threat who fly into one country may then cross the land border into the other.
There is more, read on.