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The United States and Canada routinely conduct integrated, cross-border law enforcement operations under formal frameworks that permit designated officers from one country to operate in the other’s te...
Bill C-2 is presented as the Strong Borders Act amending customs, drugs and immigration laws to boost Canada–US border security and expand examination and support powers for officers, while engaging C...
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducts drug‑smuggling investigations primarily by building interagency task forces, formalizing agreements for cross‑designation and information sharing,...
The available analyses show for the immigration challenges; responsibility is distributed across partisan priorities, policy choices, and administrative actions. Public opinion and legislative activit...
is a long-standing permit system that allowed pre-approved Canadian and residents to enter specified remote land and marine crossings without stopping at a staffed port of entry; the has announced the...
of Canadian rail freight that halted trains and shipments crossing the – border during the , with immediate suspension of many cross‑border movements and targeted halts of hazardous and perishable car...
China has long been identified by U.S. and allied authorities as a major supplier of chemical inputs used to make illicit fentanyl; officials say Beijing recently agreed to add export licensing for 13...
If you tell a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officer at a Port of Entry (POE) in Ontario that you want to claim refugee protection, officials will process your claim right away: CBSA or Immigrat...
Law enforcement and regulators track a defined set of chemical precursors, reagents and equipment linked to illicit fentanyl manufacture—commonly cited examples include —and seizures show shipments fr...
ICE’s published Physical Fitness Test (PFT) requires , and recent reporting shows , raising concerns about readiness . The FBI’s 2025 update replaces sit‑ups with pull‑ups, tightens event design (300‑...
Importing a pleasure boat into Canada in 2025 triggers federal GST of 5% on the value including any duty, and provincial sales tax or HST may also apply depending on where you clear customs (GST/HST r...
Canada’s dairy import rules remain tightly controlled in 2025: dairy imports require permits and tariff‑rate quotas (TRQs) with low within‑quota duties and very high over‑quota levies (examples: chedd...
does not operate a systematic biometric “exit check” program that photographs or fingerprints travellers as they leave the country, and the available government sources show biometric collection in Ca...
publishes nationality-related fields in its enforcement and removals datasets and summarizes them on a public statistics page, but researchers typically rely on downloadable, near‑original ICE records...
Major – crossings moved from a clear recovery in 2024 toward a sharp pullback in 2025 and into January 2026, with pedestrian and personal-vehicle travel climbing through 2024 from while 2025 saw large...
’s ports of entry collect (fingerprints and facial images) under specific immigration programs and for identity verification, but collection is limited to designated locations and to people who meet C...
The Remote Area Border Crossing () program covered a set of defined, largely water‑borne and northern land crossings — primarily in (including specific sites such as the upper lock system and remote l...
Yes — but only under narrow conditions: are not publicly searchable in a simple, universal way for ; one must rely on official channels with strict privacy limits, archival records for historical case...
Yes — people do enter Canada outside official ports of entry (commonly called "irregular" crossings), and Canadian authorities both record and respond to those crossings, but the legal and practical c...
Bill C-2 — branded by the government as the Strong Borders Act — is backed publicly by the federal Liberal government as a pillar of its border-security agenda and by law‑enforcement groups arguing it...