Craindre le Canada plutôt que le Mexique: frontières et sécurité aux États-Unis

De nombreux politiciens craignent que des terroristes musulmans tentent de pénétrer aux États-Unis en traversant la frontière à partir du Mexique. L'auteur explique pourquoi il est plus difficile de passer par le sud plutôt que par le Canada.

 "Routes across the Mexican border come with two significant disadvantages for ISIL, al Qaeda, or any other would-be terrorists: First, the cross-border smuggling routes are controlled by Mexican criminal cartels, meaning that any inflitration attempt requires trusting and allying themselves with the cartels—an unlikely proposition for the naturally distrustful jihadist leaders, as well as for the cartels themselves. “Drug organizations have been very operational wary about entering into relationships that would facilitate terrorism,” explains John Cohen, who until June was DHS’s counterterrorism coordinator and is now a professor at Rutgers University. “They don’t want additional scrutiny from governmental agencies, because they understand that terrorism’s a whole other ballgame.”

Second, the demographics along the southern border, where there are few individuals with ties to countries like Yemen or Somalia, provide few resources on either side of the border for a local support network."

  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/fear-canada-not-mexico-111919.html?hp=l2#.VEGyMfl5M1I