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Elaine Thompson Dept: "It's commonly accepted that it's the more significant threat, because of the people who can enter Canada and come across our bridges into the United States," Alan Bersin, head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, told a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington, according to CBC. Bersin said the U.S. has to "maintain a very high security profile" on the Canadian frontier, in part because Canada and the U.S. don't share their no-fly lists and so can't keep out people deemed security threats who might travel by airplane into one country, then cross the border by land and the U.S. border with Canada, even though it sees far fewer detentions and arrests every year, is a "more significant threat" to American security than the Mexican border, a senior Homeland Security official said Tuesday. U.S.-Canada border security, like at this crossing in Blaine, Wash., has been under scrutiny in recent months following a stunning finding in a U.S. government report. Elaine Thompson/Associated Press Bersin was responding to questioning from Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who demanded to know why the southern U.S. border, with about 440,000 arrests and detentions annually, isn't considered far more sensitive than the northern boundary, which saw 6,000 arrests and detentions last year. As reported in the news.
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