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This is all about all the fent and illegals they're allowing to cross the border. That's it.

I'm usually reasonable enough to realize that while I may disagree with many policy decisions, there's usually a relatively coherent line of thought to back said actions up. The problem here is that there’s no clear logic behind using tariffs as a tool to curb fentanyl trafficking or immigration. I'm not going to speak on the issue of immigration at the Canadian border because there simply is none. Yes, there are illegals from Canada, but almost 100% of them are from overstaying visas rather than crossing the border unlawfully. So let's talk about fentanyl. \n\nMost fentanyl in the US originates from China, often in precursor form, and is then processed in Mexico before being smuggled into the states. But it's typically trafficked in small, high potency quantities, often hidden in legitimate shipments or through mail, and only on very rare occasions is it being brought in by individuals crossing the border. It has _never_ been documented to have shipped in as part of large scale commercial imports, so a 25% tariff on legal trade with Canada and Mexico doesn’t directly target the black market supply chain at all.\n\nIf we take Trump’s reasoning at face value, the argument seems to be that he wants to exert economic pressure on Mexico and Canada as a means of having them crack down harder on drug trafficking networks. But the issue is that fentanyl simply isn’t coming in through mass import channels, so all this looks like is a punitive measure without a clear mechanism to actually achieve its stated goal. And the implications? Drastically higher costs for consumers in the US, Canada, and Mexico, with absolutely nothing to show for it.

i stand with you canada, 1000%. trump needs to be dealt with. those of us who know better, have to stand up. \n\nfrom a girl in minnesota❣️\n\nbtw…please take me, if i need to cross the border☀️

why does the new President of America need Canada, Mexico and China to control what crosses the borders into America, it appears the USCBP can not do the job, instead of giving a $4.5 trillion tax breaks to the rich, they should be hiring more agents at the border, after all it is Americas' border,

Thousands of Canadians crossed the border every day to work in the United States.Don't let them see what happens

When are people going to realize that the Tariffs have nothing to do with fentanyl crossing the Canadian border, that is just a smoke screen. the real reason is the fact that Trump is Putin's puppet and Canada is aligned with Ukraine, so now they are trying to hurt and possibly ruin Canadas economy. Trump is like Putin where he does not care if counter Tarriffs hurt the American people, he only cares about himself and his rich friends, who will not be personally be affected by them.

From Denmark with love, admiration and friendship. The next years my summers are gonna be spend in the Rockies and Cascades, exclusively north of the border instead of crossing it, riding bikes and hiking.

Simply stop the drugs crossing the border. Or maybe you're compromised. I stand with the Truck drivers.

Let me explain the trading relationship briefly that occurs between Canada and the US for context. \n \nCanada Has a LOT of natural resources, more than our domestic manufacturing base needs (Uranium fuel, Lumber/paper products, Steel and other metals, Fertilizer for farms...etc). Therefore we sell those raw materials to the states where they are manufactured into goods, which we then buy back. a LOT of American service companies like tech, media (And yes, even banks)...etc also operates in Canada as well. (For the auto sector the parts flip back and forth across the border like 8 times) \n \nThis relationship alone has the American economy see a large trade surplus with Canada, however there is another element to it: Energy. \n \nCanada is also home to a LARGE amount of really cheap renewable hydro power in the east, and a LOT of oil in the west, due to a lack of infrastructure we really can only sell that oil to the states and therefore it is done at a discount. America refines this cheap oil into gas and is a large part of the reason why American gas is so cheap. They use this energy to power the same factories mentioned above. (Oh and also the NE states import a lot of that clean hydro electricity for the same reasons) \n \nThe US Buys SO MUCH of that cheap energy from us to power your industrial base, that it swings the numbers on the trade balance into a small deficit for the USA. (41 billion out of a TRILLION dollars total trade, or about -4.1% of total trade so literally a pretty small deficit) It also swing back and forth every year so \n \nThen comes Trump. He wants Canada as a 51st state and own the entire continent, therefore he manufactures an excurse that our border is leaky and that migrants and fentanyl are flowing over. (In actual case migrants and the flow of Fent is about 1% the amount that's crossing at the Mexico border but he needs an excuse) \n \nHe therefore puts 25% tariffs on us. Those tariffs will hit Canada harder than the 2008 financial crisis just for scale. \n \nOh and also for the most part American Refineries literally cant process any other oil than ours or Venezuela's because its thicker so tariffs on our oil will also really increase the priced of energy in the states by a huge amount just for the LOLs. As we've seen during the post covid recovery, since gas is priced in to the supply chain at every step (Manufacturing, transportation...etc), any increase at the pump will snowball into higher costs for everything at the store, on top of the extra cost of the tariffs on consumers. (Since every step will need to add it into their markup.)

It’s never about fentanyl or migrants crossing at the borders. He is persuaded by Putin to end relationship with Canada, (the closest ally to US on geographical and trades) to ensure US will focus on developments with Russia only.

How has everyone so quickly forgotten the reason for these tariffs. Canada has not stemed the flow of fentanyl. They contuine to poison their own people and ours. We ask them to stop or we impose tarrifs, they say they will stop, then they do not stop. Trudeau is full of bullsh!t go to our northern border in WA or NY and just ask the locals. They see the illegals all the time. They cross the border and then call for help. Its gotten so bad that if you do call to turn yourself in and get a court date, border patrol has a daily wait time of 1 1/2 to 2 hours just to make initial contact. Think about that, what about the criminals and smugglers who dont call.

I'm Canadian and trudeau is so full of crap when he talks, trudeau hasn't done crap to improve our military. He knows what he needs to do to prevent these tariffs but he still wanted free drugs to cross the border same with illegals, Trudeau doesnt care about canadians at all

Why weren’t you stopping the fentanyl from crossing your borders into the USA, 4 years ago. How many lives were lost because of your incompetence?

Everyone knows this guy is a weasel, and the one he put in charge of the border is running the illegal drug trade crossing into our border….SMFH

As a Canadian, we don't produce any arms and the ones that we have in our country come from the usa...then we should do the same as Mexico...we should sue the state for the crossing border in Canada....

What a difference crossing a border makes eh? On one side reasonable Canada, on the other an unhinged spray tan and his VP wreaking havoc globally for what seems like no reason but ideology. Respect Canada, shame on you America.

Trump never mentions all the illegal guns and cocaine crossing the border the other way

A trade deficit occurs when you sell trinkets that no one wants or trinkets of poor quality. Next steps. Restrict people who come from no vax/raw milk regions from entering Canada; Hold military exercises in Canada with EU, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil; Close the Detroit border crossing for 3 days (thousands of amurucans work in Ontario), Restrict electricity exports to NY and MN; Restrict Canadian air space; Alaska no fly zone; Increase landing fees at YYZ and YVR. . Remember 1814 and Lundy`s Lane.

No problem with Canadians. Not sure why they put up with Trudeau. It took this to get him to take action on the border, and from what I understand the Canadian accounting is flawed. E.g. one percent of ten percent surveilled is not impressive, when 90 percent are crossing freely.

Why is CNN just repeating the MAGAt lies about fentanyl and migrants crossing the Canadian border. And on the southern border, 80% of fentanyl is brought in by US citizens at border crossings.

Why is he not talking about cross border fentanyl?

Bravo. Facts from JT. Nice to hear a leader who makes sense when he talks. And the vast majority of fentanyl crossing the US Border is going from the US into Canada, not the other way around.

Crossing the border from Thailand into Malaysia by train they had armed border guards with machine guns, they stopped the train and enter with dogs.

Make and hold Canada Responsable for the Illegals / Aliens crossing the border as where are they getting their passports from. Common now.

Bull???. You guys are complete liars!!!!!! They are crossing into Canada, not leaving Canada!!!!! Just Diaper Dons Vonschitthispants propaganda!!!! You liars don’t talk about, why was Texas shipping borders crossers, who crossed into the US from Mexico, and Texas was giving them bus tickets, to New York. From there, New York City, was giving these asylum seekers, a bus ticket, to the Canadian border!!!! What liars!!!!!

This channel is 150% b.s,But the fact of the matter is guns and drugs come free flowing into Canada from the U.S daily,and that problem is much worse.Since Trump got into office Americans have been flooding Canada's border,I don't blame them.If they are taking planes to Canada, then crossing,the handouts in the US must be amazing

From January to August last year, 23,358 migrants crossed Canada's border from USA side of the border. Migrants crossing the Canadian border from American soil are a lot higher that those going south.

its about time guys - finally they are looking at the northern border - remember 911 happened from guys crossing in from canada - and hijacked planes out of boston

You know what's crazy I bet as a white Canadian citizen and crossed the border went to a hotel shelter I'd be refused but if I was Indian or Hispanic or African I'd be sheltered 100% ?

They had there land. Remember when all the jews were removed and forced to leave. They had Gaza to Egypt. They chose to cross the border into isreal to kill steal snd murder. With the goal of taken all of isreal and there plan failed. Sow now you are all full of hate because by the grace of the God of Israel they didn't

So why dont Canada stop them from crossing the border??? No wonder you got 25% Tarrifs,good 4 you?

Canada had 198,929 thousand migrants in 2024 fiscal year crossing from USA to Canada. \nsame stuff but hundreds of thousands taxi delivers them right to the border to cross into Canada. \nI wounder why this video does not mention how many cross from USA to Canada. \nGoogle it ....

ICE cannot ‘shut down the Canadian border’ The United States Border Patrol is responsible for who and what crosses into the United States - not Canada.

Wow, this guy is very intelligent, he puts some clips he loaded from news or the Internet and unloaded them here to bait the people. They are coming by the thousands but the video shows only a few people. First thing is, people crossing into the USA, it's not upto canada to stop them. If somone enters canada from the USA then its upto canada to stop them from entering, not the USA. If sombody crosses into USA then it's upto USA to block them..\n\nMost of the content in this video is false. People are always trying to cross into other countries illegally, but it's upto the other countries border security to stop them and send them back..\n\nWhat a lie about the bus waiting for these people at the crossing points. LoL...sure sure..\n\nIce is nothing but a reality show, very little reality but it's entertaining to watch because people think it's real. Lol...\n\nTrump used cheap labor to built his Empire. do you guys think he hired Americans to built his luxury hotels, casinos, towers etc? Heck no, he used these very same migrants he claims to be taking your jobs away from you. Guy soreads lies and speaks from both sides of his mouth. Think about it. If you have a business, are you going to hire expansive labor or cheap labour? If you wanna make BIG profits then you knkw who you'd be hiring. Face it. Migrants will do jobs that no one wants and they'll do it for a lot less. \n\nI got a roof put on my House for less then half of what i was quoted. Thanks to the hard working migrants. Take it to the bank, ICE is not created to deport big numbers of migrants back, its created to make it look that way. How would you know how many people they deported, oh yeah, becasue the orange men is going to brag about it and you'll fall for it. Much like this video.

There are more illegal border crossings into the UK and the border is only about 75ft wide.

This is just one group on the border among MANY crossing that same day. This is what our border has looked like for 4 years…. Now think about who got into our country. So many sleeper cells

You know how to solve this issue? If they cant wait to go through the process of being legal to cross the border and live in the united states. Allow illegals to join the military. They can earn their rights and get all the paper work taken cared of by their service to this country. If he or she can go through training, serve in the military. Than they should earn the right for himself or herself and even their family rights to live in this country legal.

This looks more and more like a gimmick, a scam that the US isn't doing what they are supposed to be doing to prevent illegal border crossings from Canada but rather letting Canada do their work of securing the Canada/US borders!

There were also migrantes BRINGING IN BUSES FROM NEW YORK TO CANADA….No US americans said anything…….I hope this stops…..YOU ARE MISLEADING YOUR VIEWERS , those gangs entered the States by your OWN BORDERS,not only Texas, but by California too.There were flights coming to Tijuana bringing people from India, China, Arab countries, from there they walked to the States crossing some deserts parts.

Saying this for years. North border must be protected from illegal immigrants crossing over the North border into USA. THEY are criminals and demand get all free stuff from USA tax payers. Buslines. NYS politicians refuse to cooperate with ICE or legal Federal Immigration Laws. Thanks Trump & his team for keeping USA\nCitizens First!!!

Finally we can look at this as criminal as it would Most DEF be the case if it was say me crossing their boarders illegally …. Just saying. This border crack down is beyond needed !!

so to put this in perspective Canada arrests whoever has crossed or plans on crossing while America only arrests people who cross from Canada but not from the USA? am i missing something here? we didn't need Trump to baby anybody about doing our job he can do his. you need more border security in the north, and to say we don't would be a lie, but to say we need it from Americans is an absolute lie since clearly you can't do your job either at your southern border... the argument remains a stalemate. 2:05 to 2:51 , that's what we stand on. we aren't the problem here if you have voyager busses going back and forth. nobody forced anybody we have been waiting for a bold move like this to point out the obvious. we had trucker drama in 2020 and are on a mass recruit since, imagine that in your beloved new york it would be chaotic i'm sure, inflation has been going on since...possibly because of Tariffs beforehand but no one talks about that right? get the IRS involved.

So let me get this staight. Criminals allowed into Canada and then cross the border in the US\nHow did they get into Canada in the first place. Oh yea, Trudeau let them in with little or no vetting. No wonder Trump is doing what he is doing to Canada . Trudeau has got to go. Resign and someone else as PM.

they would not be crossing if the USA got their own shit together by not having sanctuary cities. Is like a race and a home base. The border cities are the lottery win. This is horrible and difficult to manage because Biden allowed it to grow and organize. Trump has a hard job but an important one.

more ridulous reporting. reporting? no, this is just opinion. \nthe u.s. should be doing their job and due diligence to stop the border crossing. I personally would help them if I could.

Do as the Polish border guards do, and then no one will want to cross the border illegally.

You must have a passport to cross the Canadian border. I visited Niagara falls and they check everyone on the bus.

Where are all the Chinese That cross the border illegally they need to go

So be it Canada would be 51st state, seems like they can’t handle those coyotes crossing the border

16000 , where did he get that number? Should I tell you about the thousands that crossed into Canada, after the mayor was giving them bus tickets to the border, or the ones that flew into NYC and caught cabs to the border. Roxham Road was very busy for years.