BREWTON: Pursuing Smarter Solutions to Secure the Northern Border

BREWTON: Pursuing Smarter Solutions to Secure the Northern Border

While attention often focuses on America’s southern border, a quiet crisis has been unfolding along its northern border, where the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seen alarming increases in illegal crossings, drug trafficking and encounters with individuals on terrorist watchlists. As difficult as securing the southern border has been, the northern border is more than twice as long and crosses a variety of challenging terrain.  While the …