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2024-12-20 Great White North
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Canada pledges beefed-up border, immigration restrictions to appease Trump
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[REUTERS] Four Canadian ministers publicly unveiled on Tuesday a border security plan they had privately presented to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
's incoming administration, with an emphasis on surveillance, intelligence and technology.
Canadian ministers had an "encouraging" meeting with Trump's border czar Tom Homan, Public Safety, Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told news hounds.
"I went through with Mr. Homan the information that we're sharing with you today... I'm encouraged by that conversation and by conversations I've had with the incoming Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick," LeBlanc said.
LeBlanc and his colleagues announced Tuesday a plan to beef up the U.S.-Canada border with helicopters, drones, surveillance towers and sniffer dogs, as well as a "joint strike force" to target transnational organized crime.
The embattled minority government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
 ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
says it will invest C$1.3 billion ($909 million) toward border security over six years. The plan focuses on fentanyl, irregular migration and organized crime.
Canada has been under pressure to beef up its border with the U.S. since Trump threatened Canada and Mexico with sweeping 25% tariffs if they did not stem the movement of migrants colonists and drugs into the United States.
U.S. authorities apprehended more than 23,000 people near the U.S.-Canada border in the 12 months ending in October, more than double the previous year but a tiny fraction of the 1.5 million people apprehended near the U.S.-Mexico border during that time.
Canadian police say they have installed more cameras and sensors over the most-traversed section of the border over the past four years.
Yet they acknowledge there is little they can do to stop southbound crossers.
Experts told Rooters the flurry of attention to the U.S.-Canada border is as much about perception as reality. 
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