No, Canadians won’t be seeing hundreds of US troops along the border protecting the US.  Yet. Maybe someday, it’s politics and one never know how that swings. A fence, well, US lawmakers seem to think the northern border has the same issues as the southern.

The U.S. House of Representatives has again endorsed a study on building a security fence along the Canada-U.S. border.

 

The politicians passed the measure by a vote of 283-138 Thursday in a bill that also authorizes a 1,126-kilometre barrier along the border with Mexico to deal with illegal immigrants.

It’s a mid term election year, and the challenges at the north and south parameters of the US are very different. But this probably makes US voters feel good, even though Minnesota managed to get over 2 million for ‘border security’ and northern minutemen patrols were highly exaggerated.

House legislators are trying to show voters in this November’s mid-term elections that they’re tough on security but not penalizing one part of the country over another, analysts say.

 

Peter King, chairman of the House committee on homeland security, urged his colleagues to pass what he called emergency legislation in a letter this week.

 

“So long as our borders remain porous, our citizens are threatened,” he wrote. “Over the past year, we have witnessed numerous terrorist threats and arrests both here and abroad and we owe it to every American to take immediate action.”

CTV