Lack of Security Along Northern Border Leaves America 'Grossly Unprotected'

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I have provided you with a copy of a news report that appeared in the Washington Times yesterday, February 1, 2011 that states that the top two senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee have discovered that the federal government has control of only 32 miles of the 4,000 mile border that is supposed to separate the United States from Canada.

Here is the direct quote from this disturbing news report:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent and committee chairman, said that the lack of a strong defense along the northern border is "absolutely alarming" and that it leaves the American public "grossly underprotected" from terrorist attacks, drug smugglers and other illegal activity.

"The Department of Homeland Security has concluded that the risk of terrorist activity across our northern border is actually higher than across our southern border," Mr. Lieberman told reporters, after releasing a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that said DHS could do a better job of border defense. "The report also finds that less than 1 percent of the border is under operational control - less than 1 percent of our northern border."

The point is that Senators Lieberman and Collins are justified in being concerned about the abject lack of security where our northern border is concerned. Canada represents a different set of challenges to the United States than does Mexico. I can tell you from personal experience having worked in close cooperation with members of the national police of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), that unlike Mexico, the Canadian law enforcement authorities possess a high level of integrity and professionalism.

I found the members of the "Mounties" to be every bit as capable and trustworthy as our best law enforcement officers in the United States. However, there are a number of terrorist organizations that have established themselves in Canada and additionally, there are other concerns that our government must have where international borders are concerned.

While I am gratified that at least two of our nations one hundred senators have "discovered" the Canadian border, there are ever so many other vulnerabilities that are being ignored by our government on all levels. Some time ago I wrote a commentary about the famous poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" in which I explained that with just three candles, Paul Revere's compatriots could signal how the British were coming.

The goal of illegal aliens who run our nation's borders is to make their way from the borders of the United States to the cities of our country from coast to coast and border to border. Under the current "leadership" at DHS, an agency I have come to refer to as the Department of Homeland Surrender, once an alien evades the Border Patrol, something that is apparently easier to do on the northern border than on our highly porous southern border, there is little done by our government to seek to apprehend these illegal aliens.

There have been a number of press releases that ICE has issued where the focus on the press release was to boast about how a visa fraud ring or an alien smuggling ring was dismantled by special agents of ICE. Certainly any efforts to accomplish these goals is worthwhile- but then what becomes crystal clear in reading the press releases is that absolutely no effort was reported on how ICE attempted to locate and apprehend the illegal aliens who availed themselves of the services of these criminal enterprises to surreptitiously enter the United States or acquire lawful status in our country by conspiring to commit fraud.

In fact, all too often, we are told that aliens who pay smugglers to enable them to evade the Border Patrol are considered to be "victims" of human trafficking! I can tell you that anyone who pays another person in order to enter into a criminal conspiracy to evade the law is not a "victim" but is, in fact, a "co-conspirator!"

Senators Collins and Lieberman have finally discovered that the United States has a northern border and that the border exists only on maps! I am completely underwhelmed!

Eighteen years ago, in 1993 two terrorist attacks were carried out in our country by Radical Islamist terrorists that involved the killing of two CIA officers and the wounding of three others in January 1993 by a Pakistani national who was granted political asylum by defrauding the immigration benefits program. One month later the first attack against the World Trade Center left 6 innocent victims dead, hundreds injured and an estimated one half billion dollars in damages inflicted on the World Trade Center Complex that nearly toppled one of the towers that stretched nearly a quarter of a mile into the skies over the City of New York.

More than nine years ago the World Trade Center was reduced to a rubble pile, an airliner was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon was struck by yet another airliner that was turned into a weapon. Approximately 3,000 innocent people were slaughtered on that day in September, 2001. Thousands of additional people, primarily first responders, were sickened by the toxic substances they inhaled or were otherwise exposed to. Some of these people have also since died while other suffer terribly until this very day.

Yet it is considered a revelation that the two senators who lead the Homeland Security Committee in Washington have finally given a bit of thought to the northern border of the United States?

Yet these issues have not been addressed in any meaningful fashion.

A country without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls!

If our country is to survive and if our children and their children are to get their share of the "American Dream" the citizens of this nation must take their citizenship seriously!

We the People must be the best citizens we can be, citizens who are worthy of the gallantry demonstrated by our valiant men and women in the military, law enforcement and firefighters, who routinely go in harm's way in defense of this nation and our citizens.

My goal in writing this and other commentaries is to point out our nations many failings before more victims pay the ultimate price for the incompetence and ineptitude of our government.

The first step in problem-solving is to first identify the problems and vulnerabilities and then devise strategies to overcome them.

If you find yourself to be in agreement with this commentary, I ask that you forward it to as many of your friends and family members as possible and encourage them to do the same. We need to create a "Bucket Brigade of Truth!"

The practice of good citizenship does not end in the voting booth, it only begins there.

The collective failure of We the People to get involved in make our concerns known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians. I implore you to resolve this year to get involved!

I believe our nation's is greatly benefited by the rich diversity of our people which is why I could never imagine living anywhere except New York City, arguably the most diverse city in our nation if not, in fact, the world. However, my idea of diversity most certainly does not include members of MS-13, the Mexican drug cartels or members of other transnational gangs or members of al-Qaeda!

If this situation concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and Congressional "Representative. This is not only your right- it is your obligation!

All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as dumb as they hope we are!
We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!
Democracy is not a spectator sport!
Lead, follow or get out of the way!

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Michael Cutler is an American Patriot concerned that elected representatives are serving themselves and not the people.