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(NewsNation) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau connected Monday agreed to border information measures with President Donald Trump successful speech for a 30-day intermission connected sweeping tariffs.
Canada volition spend $1.3 cardinal to reenforce the U.S.-Canadian border with caller helicopters, exertion and unit to people fentanyl trafficking and different crimes.
The Canadian border, including what and who crosses it, is simply a problemover which writer and “No BS Newshour” big Charlie LeDuff has agelong raised reddish flags.
"I ain it. You called maine months agone saying you request to speech astir what's happening up there," NewsNation's Chris Cuomo said Monday, imploring LeDuff to stock what he's learned successful his investigation.
LeDuff warned the U.S.-Canada borderline poses a menace to nationalist security, 1 that is often overlooked owed to the louder calls for alteration astatine the confederate border.
"Canada and United States person a 5,500 mile border," LeDuff said connected "CUOMO." "The Mexican border's 2,000 miles. In Mexico, connected that border, 10 times the Border Patrol agents" arsenic successful the north.
LeDuff told NewsNation that, successful the past 4 years, astir 500 radical connected the panic ticker database crossed into the U.S. from the Mexico border. Those crossing from Canada totaled astir 1,000, helium said.
"It's not a bully woody up there, man," helium said. "It's wide open."
LeDuff couldn't talk to Canada's fentanyl flow for certain, telling NewsNation that the border's porosity lends itself to unclear numbers.
"As you saw today, Trudeau bent. When you're throwing $1.5 cardinal for a fentanyl czar, you cognize something's up," helium said.
Cartels marque the synthetic opioid successful labs and past smuggle it into the U.S., mostly astatine authoritative onshore crossings successful California and Arizona.
Fentanyl tin besides beryllium made successful Canada and smuggled into the U.S., but seemingly that's happening to a overmuch lesser extent. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds (19.5 kilograms) of fentanyl astatine the Canadian borderline during the past fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds (9,570 kilograms) astatine the Mexican border.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
