The statements of the Trump administration that the Canada border is a threat of national security does not resist a meticulous examination, according to a report by the internal government obtained by Global News.
Responding to the claims of republican politicians that hundreds of alleged terrorists illegally cross the United States from Canada, the report replied that such incidents were “limited”.
Republican members of the Congress have describes Canada As a “major threat”, saying that the “porous northern border” was a crisis that was to be approached by legislation.
“Real statistics of customs and the protection of American border do not support these claims,” the integrated center for the Canadian government’s terrorism assessment wrote.
Marked “Secret / Canadian Eyes Only”, the report was written a week after President Donald Trump was sworn. A copy was published in Global News under the Access to Information Act.
Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the White House on Tuesday in the middle of a trade war initiated by Trump, which he partially justified by citing the flow of illegal migrants and Canada fentanyl.
Pro-Trump legislators have signed a statement Last year, saying that the “negligence” of the Biden administration of the North border had left the United States vulnerable to an “unprecedented increase” of illegal migrants crossing Canada, including “known terrorists”.
“The media reported that politicians in the United States have expressed concerns about the Canadian border,” said the report, which described itself as “fact control” for American statements.
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“In addition, the new American president threatened to impose a steep rate on imports from Canada on February 1, 2025, citing concerns that include illegal migration.”
“Media relationships also specifically indicate irregular passages (that is to say those who cross the entry points) increase considerably with” hundreds of terrorist suspects “.
But the Canadian report said that since 2022, only six suspects reported by the American terrorist screening data, or TSD, had tried to go south between border posts, the report.
“Irregular entrances along the northern border remain a fraction of similar entrances observed on the South American border,” he said. “In addition, these entries, there are extremely few known cases of someone who has a record of American TSD.”
In Border Crossing Installations, 358 people on the TSD list tried to enter the United States from Canada last year, against 484 in 2023 and 313 in 2022.
But these figures have regularly decreased in proportion to the total volume of travelers, according to the report.
Even those on the surveillance list were not necessarily dangerous, as TSDs “include a variety of people, not just those considered to be current and credible threats to national security,” he said.
“It also includes people affiliated with these individuals as well as individuals requiring a more in -depth investigation.”
The report also indicates that the extremists had crossed the borders for reasons other than the realization of attacks.
“Some Canadians have sought to travel to the United States to attend events (affiliated or co-opted by extremists), probably seeking to forge stronger ties with individuals sharing the same ideas,” wrote Itac.
He quoted the example of the White Nationalists Active Club which uses fitness arts and martial arts to attract followers and see himself as training to train to take “a system which they claim to deliberately plot against the white race”.
“Although travels are not necessarily linked to violent extremism, these trips by those who engage in extremist activities can allow them to strengthen networks, share information and strengthen capacity, which could ultimately lead to violence,” he said.
But the journey goes in both directions.
In January, Canadian immigration officials arrested an American sentenced for his role in January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC
He was then forgiven by Trump, with around 1,500 others, the report called “extremists, conspiracy theorists and militia members” convinced by false claims that the 2020 elections were stolen.
Other recent examples include Patrick MatthewsA neonazi manitoba arrested in Delaware in 2020.
On July 28, 2024, the RCMP arrested Ahmed Eldidi and his son Mosfa In Toronto for having allegedly planned an Islamic State attack. Mostafa had entered Canada from Iowa, where he was a student.
The RCMP arrested the Pakistani citizen Muhammad shahzeb khan In Quebec on September 4, because he would have been on his way to New York to perform an Islamic State of State shooting in a Jewish center.
THE American announced In December, he expelled a Jordanian with “links with terrorism”, after illegally crossing the Canada border. But he actually entered Canada in the United States in 2017.
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