While many Americans have been concentrating their attention on the problems with the Mexican border, 85% of all those on the terror watch list are trying to illegally cross the northern border, Rep. Claudia Tenney warned Newsmax on Monday.

The New York Republican sounded the alarm on Newsmax’s “American Agenda,” explaining that large numbers of the border patrol have been moved down to the southern border in order to help with the crisis there, leaving resources to defend the border with Canada extremely depleted.

Tenney said that “so while we have displaced so many of our agents to help out with the southern border, it has left the northern border not as secure as it should be,” emphasizing that our border patrol are very overburdened up North as well.

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