(16 Feb 2011)
Massena, New York - 10 February, 2011
1. Various of frozen over St. Lawrence River
2. Various of U.S. Border Patrol snowmobile tracks
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wade Laughman, U.S. Border Patrol:
"People utilise boats obviously in the summer months, in the spring and the fall, before the river's frozen. Then when the river is frozen there's sections where you can actually drive across it with vehicles, with snowmobiles, with ATVs (all-terrain vehicle) whatever. You can walk across it, snowshoe across it."
4. Various of U.S. B order patrol snowmobile being driven
5. Tracking shot from snow mobile of snow covered land
6. Mid from behind snowmobile driver's head
7. Wide of two snowmobiles
Albany, New York - 11 February, 2011
8 . SOUNDBITE: (English) James R. Burns, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration:
"So while the southern border gets the attention it deserves, I think the northern border is getting more attention and is getting additional resources that we do need up here."
Massena, New York - 10 February, 2011
9. Mid of St. Lawrence river separating the US and Canada
10. Wide of St. Lawrence river
11. Wide of bridge connecting the US and Canada
Albany, New York - 11 February, 2011
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) James R. Burns, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration:
"The seizures have gone up, but I can't really tell you that that's because the amount of trafficking's gone up in the last three or four years, it's just that we have more resources up here now."
Massena, New York - 10 February, 2011
13. Wide of U.S. Border patrol snowmobiles
14. Mid of U.S. Border patrol snowmobiles
15. Tracking shot of St. Lawrence river from snowmobile
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wade Laughman, U.S. Border Patrol:
"Well obviously we don't get the volume, we don't get the amount of human smuggling, narcotics smuggling they get on the southern border, obviously. But there still is a real threat on the northern border. Our Canadian partners, to our north, they are aware of that threat as well. Obviously there's a lot less border patrol agents on the northern border than on the southern border, but the threat is still there and it's still real."
17. Pan of St. Lawrence river
STORYLINE:
U.S. border patrol agents are increasing their efforts to prevent drug smugglers, illegal immigration and human trafficking on the U.S.-Canadian border after a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned this month that the extremist threat from Canada is higher than that from Mexico because of the vast swaths of unprotected frontier.
In the winter months, the St. Lawrence River freezes creating a frontier of ice and for drug smugglers, a highway of seemingly infinite lanes between the two countries.
It is the United States' forgotten border, where federal agents and police play cat-and-mouse with smugglers and illegal immigrants along four-thousand miles (6437 kilometres) of a mostly unmarked and unfortified frontier with Canada.
Just 32 miles (51 kilometres) of the border have an acceptable level of Border Patrol security, with agents available to make on-site arrests, the GAO report said.
Senators from northern border states urged the Obama administration to deploy military radar and more unmanned planes.
The head of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Senator Joe Lieberman, suggested the government should examine whether to require visas from Canadian visitors.
Ressam had planned to bomb Los Angeles airport during the 2000 New Year celebration.
The GAO report also warned of "known terrorist organisations" in Canada.
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