By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--November 27, 2015
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“Herdina says the most effective tool in tracking illegal border crossers is not the border agents or surveillance airplanes; it’s the roughly 100 ranchers who span Montana's border with Canada.” (Reuters) “Last year, one rancher called the border patrol to report two strangers on his land, Herdina said. They were two Guatemalans who had crossed the border illegally. “Janas Strauser, owner of 66 Ranch on the border, said: "The people up here will report people who cross the border. The ranchers and farmers call them in.” “While the border patrol union has a stake in securing more jobs and funding, its view was supported by a 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan congressional watchdog, which found that only 32 miles of the border was properly secure and that the security risks were genuine. “The terrorist threat on the northern border is higher (than on the Mexican border), given the large expanse of area with limited law enforcement coverage,” the report said.”Trudeau’s signature in his life in the PMO so far has been celebrity-obsessed fans lining up for selfies with him and removing the portrait of Queen Elizabeth ll from the headquarters of the Foreign Affairs department on the pretext it was taking display room away from Canadian artists. The far more grounded farmers and ranchers of Montana would consider any of their heifers better looking than a celebrity prime minister from the country next door. Meanwhile, the Trust Fund son of former Celebrity Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, will find it difficult romancing ranchers and farmers because there’s just no romancing those who actually work for a living.
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