{"id":2520656,"date":"2025-12-12T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-groups-first-nation-police-support-stronger-border-security\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:50:21","slug":"canadian-groups-first-nation-police-support-stronger-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-groups-first-nation-police-support-stronger-border-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian groups, First Nation police support stronger border security"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanadian-groups-first-nation-police-support-stronger-border-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2520656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dei-disaster-petition-circulating-within-secret-service-community-warns-of-potential-insider-threats\/\" title=\"DEI Crisis: Secret Service Petition Raises Concerns About &#039;Insider Threats\">article discusses concerns raised<\/a> by Canadian groups and First Nation police chiefs about the security of the Canada-U.S. border, challenging official claims that it is the &#8220;best-managed and most secure border in the world.&#8221; First Nation representatives recently visited Texas to collaborate with U.S. law enforcement on improving border security, including joining the Operation Lone Star Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>They highlight the growing influence of Mexican cartels and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coast-guard-seizes-over-2000-lbs-of-cocaine-worth-32m-in-miami\/\" title=\"Coast Guard confiscates M worth of cocaine in Miami, weighing over 2,000 lbs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-cartels-traffickers-exploiting-unfinished-border-wall-construction\/\" title=\"Blackburn: ..., Traffickers Exploiting Unfinished ... Wall Construction\">transnational criminal organizations<\/a> operating<\/a> in Canada, which often partner with local gangs like the Hells Angels and groups tied to the Chinese Communist Party. These criminal networks exploit Canada&#8217;s ports, financial systems, and lenient disclosure laws to traffic drugs, weapons, and people, using refined technologies and laundering money through legitimate businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Certain First Nation reservations along the border, such as the Akwesasne Mohawk and Tsawwassen First Nation, are particularly affected by smuggling and organized crime. Critics blame the Canadian government&#8217;s previous focus on issues other than national security for allowing these problems to escalate. Under the Trudeau management, border security was not prioritized, coinciding with record numbers of illegal crossings and suspected terrorists at the northern border.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this pressure and U.S.actions, including a national emergency declaration by former President Trump, Canada proposed a $1.3 billion plan to strengthen border security. However, Canadian groups and First Nation leaders argue that more extensive measures are needed, such as modernizing technology, reforming privacy laws for better intelligence sharing, and fully recognizing and funding First Nation police as essential to national security efforts at the border.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Canadian groups, First Nation police support stronger border security<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2443472\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash;&nbsp;Despite <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/canada\/\">Canadian<\/a> officials&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_3f11a3ba-656e-11ef-b7bb-4fc99f057ca2.html\">arguing<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;the &ldquo;Canada-U.S. border is the best-managed and most secure border in the world,&rdquo; some Canadian groups and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/native-americans\/\">First Nation<\/a> tribal police chiefs disagree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week, First Nation representatives traveled to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\">Texas<\/a> for the first time in U.S.-Canadian history to find ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >implement stronger border security measures<\/a> at the U.S.-Canada border, including joining an Operation Lone Star Task Force, <em>The Center Square<\/em> exclusively&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/texas\/article_1588a159-8f96-4670-84cd-bfae3305b39b.html\">reported.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3916066\/trump-administration-ends-temporary-protected-status-ethiopia\/\">Trump administration ends temporary protected status for Ethiopians<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3913715\/fema-meeting-noem-house-testimony\/\">FEMA meeting abruptly canceled after Noem cut congressional testimony short to attend<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3915660\/california-cash-assistance-program-immigran\/\">CA spending $278M on &#8216;Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants&#8217; this year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Part of the problem is getting law enforcement, elected officials, and the general public to understand the reality that Mexican cartels and transnational criminal organizations are operating in Canada; another stems from the Trudeau&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_93e09c26-5b4f-11ef-ac49-272d1253f849.html\">administration&rsquo;s visa policies<\/a>, they argue.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to public perception, &ldquo;If you tell Canadians we have a cartel problem, they&rsquo;ll laugh at you. They don&rsquo;t believe it. If you tell them we have a gang problem, they will absolutely agree with you 100%. They don&rsquo;t think that gangs and cartels are the same thing. They don&rsquo;t see the Hells Angels as equal to the Sinaloa Cartel because&rdquo; the biker gang is visible, wearing vests out on the streets and cartel operatives aren&rsquo;t, Jamie Tronnes, executive director of the Center of North American Prosperity and Security, told The Center Square in an exclusive interview.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The center is a US-based project of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute, the largest think tank in Canada. Tronnes previously served as a special assistant to the cabinet minister responsible for immigration and has a background in counterterrorism. She joined First Nation police chiefs to meet with Texas law enforcement and officials this week.<\/p>\n<p>Another Canadian group, Future Borders Coalition, argues, &ldquo;Canada has become a critical hub for transnational organized crime, with networks operating through its&nbsp;ports, banks, and border communities.&rdquo; The Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Mexican cartels control the fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine business in Canada, partnering with local gangs like the Hells Angels and Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked actors, who launder profits through casinos, real estate, and shell companies in Vancouver and Toronto, Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and others&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futureborderscoalition.org\/post\/transnational-organized-crime-and-border-security-top-takeaways-from-the-ottawa-roundtable\">said at a coalition event<\/a>&nbsp;prior to First Nation police chiefs and Tronnes coming to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The &rsquo;Ndrangheta (Italian Mafia) maintains powerful laundering and import operations in Ontario and Quebec, while MS-13 and similar Central American gangs facilitate human smuggling and enforcement. Financial networks tied to Hezbollah and other Middle Eastern groups support laundering and logistics for these criminal alliances,&rdquo; the coalition reports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Together, they form interconnected, technology-driven enterprises that exploit global shipping, cryptocurrency, and AI-enabled communications to traffic whatever yields profit &ndash; narcotics, weapons, tobacco, or people. Taking advantage of Canada&rsquo;s lenient disclosure laws, fragmented jurisdictions, and weak cross-border coordination, these groups have embedded themselves within legitimate sectors, turning Canada into both a transit corridor and safe haven for organized crime,&rdquo; the coalition reports.<\/p>\n<p>Some First Nation reservations impacted by transnational crime straddle the U.S.-Canada border. One is the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation, located in Ontario, Quebec, and in two upstate New York counties, where human smuggling and transnational crime are occurring, <em>The Center Square<\/em>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_89f7b8b8-b9dc-40dd-8fd8-927fa8a2c465.html\"><strong>reported<\/strong>.<\/a>&nbsp;Another is the Tsawwassen First Nation (TWA) Reservation, located in a coastal region south of Vancouver in British Columbia, stretching to Point Roberts in Washington state, which operates a ferry along a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/syrian-men-among-human-smugglers-apprehended-through-operation-lone-star\/\" title=\"Syrian men caught as human smugglers in Operation Lone Star\">major smuggling corridor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some First Nation reservations like the TWA are suffering from CCP-organized crime, Tronnes said. Coastal residents observe smugglers crossing their back yards, going through the reserve; along Canada&rsquo;s western border, &ldquo;a lot of fentanyl is being sent out to Asia, but it&rsquo;s also being made in Canada,&rdquo; Tronnes&nbsp;said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transnational criminal activity went largely unchecked under the Trudeau government, during which &ldquo;border security, national security, and national defense were not primary concerns,&rdquo; Tronnes told The Center Square. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not to say they weren&rsquo;t concerns, but they weren&rsquo;t top-of-mind concerns. The Trudeau government preferred to focus on things like climate change, international human rights issues, a feminist foreign policy type of situation, where they were looking more at virtue signaling rather than securing the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Under the Trudeau administration, the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_cd92623e-8206-4853-9cf0-65ee8f0acf7c.html\">greatest number<\/a>&nbsp;of illegal border crossers,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_146979c2-7111-11ef-be33-772bf19f1f78.html\">including Canadians<\/a>, and the greatest number of known, suspected terrorists (KSTs) were reported at the U.S.-Canada border in U.S. history, <em>The Center Square<\/em> first reported. They include an Iranian with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_dd7994f2-a734-11ee-a5d1-a37f48e65792.html\">terrorist ties<\/a>&nbsp;living in Canada and a Canadian woman who tried to poison President Donald Trump, The Center Square&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_78647fc0-3ec8-11ee-82ca-cf4f2d804454.html\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Had it been a priority for the government to really crack down and provide resources for national security,&rdquo; federal, provincial, and First Nation law enforcement would be better equipped, funded and staffed, Tronnes said. &ldquo;They would have better ways to understand what&rsquo;s really happening at the border.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February, President Donald Trump, for the first time in U.S. history,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_0b7f914e-e190-11ef-81ae-2768bfbd8284.html\">declared a national<\/a>&nbsp;emergency at the northern border and ordered U.S. military intervention. Months later, his administration acknowledged the majority of fentanyl and KSTs were coming from Canada, The Center Square&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_26597652-1114-4e1e-9962-2c8326ec7d1d.html\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3914918\/trump-communications-team-double-tap-drug-boat-strikes\/\">PETER LAFFIN: TRUMP OWNS THE MORAL HIGH GROUND ON DRUGS AND BORDERS. HIS COMMUNICATIONS TEAM IS SETTING IT ON FIRE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under a new government and in response to pressure from Trump, Canada&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-safety-canada\/news\/2024\/12\/government-of-canada-announces-its-plan-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html\">proposed<\/a>&nbsp;a $1.3 billion border plan. However, more is needed, the groups argue, including modernizing border technology and an analytics infrastructure, reforming disclosure and privacy rules to enable intelligence sharing, and recognizing and fully funding First Nation police, designating them as essential services and essential to border security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;National security doesn&rsquo;t exist without First Nation policing at the border,&rdquo; Dwayne Zacharie, First Nations Chiefs of Police president, told <em>The Center Square<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Nation police, Canadian groups back stronger border security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2869,"featured_media":2520657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693c3480d8b6a.image_.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33709,68731,68732,51050],"class_list":["post-2520656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-border-security","tag-canadian-groups","tag-first-nation-police","tag-law-enforcement-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693c3480d8b6a.image_.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520661,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520656\/revisions\/2520661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}