Northern Border Patrol: By Land
http://ksax.com/article/stories/S1812856.shtml?cat=10230 <http://ksax.com/ksaxImages/land%20pic.JPG> WARROAD, Minn. - Down south, there are 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico but up north, United States Customs and Border Protection has a 5,000 mile border to protect. On an average day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is the largest law enforcement agency in the world, processes around one million people coming in and out of the United States. "Anybody who wants to harm the United States is a threat, and they can cross at any Port of Entry or anywhere in the United States," Warroad Port of Entry Director Brian King said. "The vast amount of land to defend is a daunting task. We're America's front line and we're here to defend the homeland and that's what we try to do every day." At the Canadian Port of Entry in Warroad, Minnesota there are three different ways that the border needs to be protected: land, water and air. "Our priority and mission is to prevent terrorists from entering our country and to prevent weapons of terrorism from entering our country," Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Wayne Restad said. Restad has been protecting the northern border by land for over 25 years. "We don't apprehend as many illegal aliens on the Northern border as they do the Southern border, but we still have the same threat," Restad said. The main border security issue down south is the prevention of illegal aliens sneaking into the United States. Up north, their focus is on something else. "It only takes one situation where the wrong person arrives at our port of entry. It could happen anywhere on the northern or the southern border," Port Director Brian King said. "Places that want to do the United States harm, different places and different countries from around the world, they can fly in to the northern region of Canada and then try to traverse into the United States," Public Affairs Officer Kris Grogan said. "It's a shorter flight for them and a quicker route." Gathering intelligence over a period of time, and working with the locals are invaluable to the success of border protection. "We work pretty much daily, back and forth, to get information and intelligence on what things are going to happen so we can combat the terrorist threat before it comes to the nation's borders," Grogan said. "The local residents that live in these communities, live in these environments, they're our eyes and ears," added Restad. "This has been my home for 25 years and it's very important to me that we maintain border security." Written for the web by Kenny King [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
