Canada and Mexico, the only countries bordering the United States, should both be in the focus of the Department of Homeland Security, yet most emphasis lies on the latter one. Despite numerous efforts to keep the borders secure and most importantly closed, approximately 10,000 people are crossing the border from Mexico each day. As mentioned in my previous article, there are suspicions that Hezbollah terrorists try to enter the U.S. With help of the drug cartels. But what about Canada?

Mexico has a quite strict visa policy in comparison to Canada. While you are only allowed to stay in Mexico a few weeks and still need a visa, no matter where you come from, Canada allows visitors to enter for up to six months and does not even require visas from some countries. While many of these countries are in Europe, some previously British colonies are also granted exempt-visas.
Keep in mind, most of the 7/7 bombers in London, England were British citizens and also in the possession of British passports and therefore would have been eligible to enter Canada without any restrictions.

This means, that terrorists who are able to get a passport of any country, which is on Canada’s exempt-visa list, could enter the United States’ northern neighbor without much trouble. As I already pointed out, there are many ways to go from there and one is entering the U.S. directly, which I will elaborate on in my next article.
They could also stay in Canada for a while and start planning their attacks. They have at least six months without violating any law. So setting up an attack gets much easier because they are more or less in striking distance.
They might probably need someone helping them and giving them shelter.

Staying there also gives them the liberty to collaborate with local smugglers to get them in the US.
In my next article I will lay out how they could cross the border and how little it takes to do so in comparison to Mexico.