U.S. and Canada Act Jointly to Combat Cross-Border Crime

United States and Canada Act Jointly to Combat Cross-Border Crime

Release Date: May 26, 2009

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

Framework Agreement on Integrated Cross-Border
Maritime Law Enforcement Operations between the
U.S. and Canadian Governments (Shiprider Agreement)
(PDF, 17 pages - 56 KB)

Detroit—The Honorable Janet Napolitano, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Honorable Peter Van Loan, Canadian Minister of Public Safety, toured port operations today on both sides of the shared United States/Canada border and signed an agreement to make Shiprider—joint law enforcement teams stationed along the international maritime border—permanent.

“The Shiprider concept involves law enforcement officials from both countries operating together in integrated teams. Utilizing Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and U.S. Coast Guard vessels, they combat smuggling, organized drug crime, gun trade and other criminal activity in shared waterways,â€

FINALLY!!! These Canadians are pouring through the border to take advantage of us!! All of those beheaded Canadians that we read about everyday scares me.

I am so tired of this BS from Nappy!! Canada is a strong ally. Mexico is an enemy, at least until they stop sending their people here to steal from us.

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Originally Posted by jshhmr

FINALLY!!! These Canadians are pouring through the border to take advantage of us!! All of those beheaded Canadians that we read about everyday scares me.

I am so tired of this BS from Nappy!! Canada is a strong ally. Mexico is an enemy, at least until they stop sending their people here to steal from us.

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Nappy needs to resign and take a very long nap from politcs. Her brain has been fried by Mexican lobbyists.

Mounties, Coast Guard to patrol together

Canadian Mounties and U.S. Coast Guard officers will be work side by side as they patrol the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today.

Tomorrow she will make her first visit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa for further security talks.

The so-called Shiprider program had been tested recently to stop cross-border smuggling of tobacco and immigrants.

Toronto's Globe & Mail and the Detroit Free Press have more details.

Posted at 05:50 PM/ET, May 26, 2009 in Americas, Crime, Nation
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John Doe 2 (27 friends, send message) wrote: 3m ago

"The so-called Shiprider program had been tested recently to stop cross-border smuggling of tobacco and immigrants."

If people are smuggled in they aren't IMMIGRANTS,

they're ILLEGAL ALIENS.