On Monday, Red State reported the following:
A former officer in the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) says the number of illegal aliens fleeing the United States over the northern border into Canada has surged due to President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.
And an actual Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel smuggler confirmed business is booming in the opposite direction as illegals, through his assistance, are self-deporting to the Great White North.
The news comes from a “60 Minutes Overtime” segment airing Sunday night.
Kelly Sundberg, who spent 15 years with the CBSA and now researches border security as a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, spoke to the CBS show. He fretted that Trump’s policies have already increased the number of illegals flowing into Canada, and he expects a coming “tsunami.”
“Canada can expect a tsunami of illegal immigrants fleeing American authorities and coming into our country,” said Sundberg. “The numbers already are going up.”
“I hope I’m wrong, but it would appear that we’re going to be overwhelmed by the illegal immigrants fleeing American authorities coming into our country,” he added. “And they very well might be bringing guns and drugs with them.”
The article includes the human smugglers perspective:
Not content with Sundberg’s assessment, “60 Minutes Overtime” spoke to a drug and human smuggler working for the Sinaloa drug cartel who confirmed he’s seeing a significant increase in requests to cross the northern border from the US into Canada.
“Most of them are Venezuelans,” he told CBS. “Those people are afraid of being deported to their countries. Normally before, we didn’t see that much, maybe out of every 30 people we crossed, three or four would come up.”
“Now, maybe out of every 10 we cross, five go up [to Canada].”
Based on that obviously rough estimation, the smuggler’s personal numbers have jumped from about 10 percent to 50 percent of those looking to leave America.
Considering the smuggler admits that he not only moves people – including babies – across the northern border, but also significant quantities of fentanyl and weapons, it’s good that his business is moving in the other direction.
I think it’s time for the countries opposed to the drug and human smuggling cartels to work together to stop both.