A veteran of the Canada Border Services Agency explained what President Donald Trump had to do with a predicted “tsunami” of illegal aliens that could be heading to the Great White North.
(Video Credit: CBS News)
Prior to Trump’s return to the White House, the commander-in-chief spoke to officials from the United States’ neighbors to the north and south about doing their part to tamp down on problems of a porous border, including human smuggling.
Now, as mass deportation efforts are underway across the U.S. and a deadline for more tariffs looms for Canada should they fail to take steps toward border security, Mount Royal University professor and criminologist Kelly Sundberg told CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that, “Canada can expect a tsunami of illegal immigrants fleeing American authorities and coming into our country.”
“The numbers already are going up,” he added to correspondent Cecilia Vega.
Having spent 15 years in the CBSA before his university gig in Calgary, Alberta, Sundberg remarked that his nation is ill-equipped to handle the problem as it lacks an agency like the U.S. Border Patrol and its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) equivalent only has about 400 agents to cover the entire country when it needs 4,000 to 5,000 to handle the current number of cases.
“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, and they very well might be bringing guns and drugs with them,” he lamented as, like Mexico, Canada faulted guns originating in the United States for crimes committed within their borders.
In addition to Sundberg’s stated concerns, an anonymous man identified as a Mexican cartel member told Vega that more foreign nationals were hoping to be smuggled through the United States, rather than to it.”
“Most of them are Venezuelans. 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,” the man explained. “Now, maybe out of every 10 we cross, five go up to Canada.”
Sundberg’s prediction aligns with fears that were expressed out of Canada prior to the 2024 presidential election, as others suggested the contrast between Trump’s policies and the welcome mat and freebies that were offered under then-President Joe Biden’s administration would lead to self-deportations.
“These people aren’t just going to sit there and wait to be rounded up,” former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman said during a national security conference in Ottawa.
Along with the concerns of the former Obama administration official, Postmedia’s national politics columnist Tasha Kheiriddin used similar language to the professor and wrote, “…like a tsunami on the horizon, unless we get ready for them, they could swamp us in more ways than one.”
Meanwhile, as the April 2 date nears for what Trump referred to as “Liberation Day” where more tariffs were set to go into effect, the GOP leader’s policies have not only resulted in staggering decreases in crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border but a 94% drop has also been reported in the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia in January when compared to the same time the previous year.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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