Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Ottawa will work with the incoming Trump administration on border security, following comments from the newly appointed U.S. “border czar,” who said illegal immigration at the countries’ shared border poses a “huge national security issue.”
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced Nov. 11 that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Tom Homan would be in charge of the nation’s borders and coordinate deportation operations. In an interview with TV network WWNY Homan said border patrol agents at the Canada-U.S. border are “overwhelmed” with migrants.
LeBlanc said Ottawa shares the Americans’ concerns that the border can be a source of “potential violent extremists crossing from Canada into the United States, or vice versa.”…