Feel bad for our Canadian brothers and sisters. It's not like they enjoy the illegal immigration and free flow of killer drugs any more than we do. It's the govt that foisted that on them, not something the people invited.
More illegals came over the Northern border from Canada in 2023 than in the 13 preceding years (as measured by "got aways" and "released on parole into the US"). The smugglers advertised their services openly in Canada. The tiny percentage of arrests made involved people from 80 countries. A well worn route from the airport to empty stretches of borderlands of Northern NY, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Going up to visit you could see it everywhere. Local papers talking about tiny school budgets collapsing under the weight of sudden large numbers non-english speaking student "new arrivals", housing shortages made far worse, unlicensed, uninsured hit and run drivers becoming a routine occurrence. Shootouts between gang members in bucolic towns with 0% violent crime for decades. And ofc massive amounts of synthetic opioids throwing gasoline on a pre-existing addiction scourge, with OD deaths of young people so routine hardly worth a mention in the papers.
Then just as fast as the tap was opened, it stopped, demonstrating just how intentional it was.