While there is plenty of speculation on what it will take to secure our borders, there has unfortunately been a scarcity of any real field research with specific recommendations based on findings. I hope the delivery of this report on the northern border to the respective chairmen will provide some factual data of use in legislative planning, and will foster additional detailed, non-partisan field research. At some point we have to abandon rhetoric and start adopting practical solutions to address our startling lack of real border security.
(One of the better protected of the estimated 1,000 remote rural unguarded road crossings on the northern border – by virtue of a steel gate secured with a chain)