More Suspected Terrorists Try to Enter U.S. Through Canada Than Through Mexico: Report Canoe.com
go to original February 13, 2017

In an interview, Daily Beast reporter Jana Winter, who received the leaked data, said she was surprised by how many U.S. officials were unaware of this data. (CBC)

U.S. President Donald Trump may be worried about criminals sneaking into his country from Mexico but when it comes to terror suspects, he might need to be look at Canada.

Seven FBI reports, were obtained last week by The Daily Beast, dating from April 2014 to August 2016, on encounters with suspected terrorists across the U.S. Based on data from terrorist watch lists, all of the reports show that the number of suspected terrorists trying to cross the border northern land crossings is higher than those doing so at southern ones. In other words, they're coming from Canada.

“We are looking the wrong direction,” an unnamed Department of Homeland Security official told the news site. “Not to say that Mexico isn’t a problem, but the real bad guys aren’t coming from there — at least not yet.”

In an interview with CBC, Daily Beast reporter Jana Winter, who received the leaked data, said she was surprised by how many U.S. officials were unaware of this data.

"I think most shocking (is) that some of the law enforcement officials — and also congressmen and senators who live and work in border states — had no idea that these numbers existed." she told CBC. "The U.S is so busy focusing on Mexico."

"Which doesn't mean that Mexico is still not a threat," Winter added. "But it seems sort of ridiculous to be focusing on one border when the other one is right there."

In response to the report, the federal government told CBC "no terrorist attack has ever been carried out by individuals entering the United States from Canada."

Read the rest at Canoe.com

Related: Losing Hope in U.S., Migrants Make Icy Crossing to Canada (The New York Times)

Related: 'The Real Bad Guys' Are Coming from Canada: Trump Told He's Watching Wrong Border (Yahoo)

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