White House border czar Tom Homan says he plans to focus more heavily on the U.S.–Canada border over the next two years, renewing a warning that Canada could be used as a route into the United States by people who pose security threats.
“The next two years, I’m really concentrating on the northern border,” Homan told The Epoch Times in an interview.
Homan said the Trump administration should dedicate more personnel, technology, and infrastructure to the northern border now that it has strengthened security at the U.S.–Mexico border.
Homan called the northern border a “huge national security vulnerability.”
“Canada’s immigration laws are very lax,” he said.
He told The Epoch Times that people who pose security threats could enter Canada and then cross into the United States more easily than they could when entering the U.S. directly.
It is a warning Homan has made before. In November 2024, shortly after Trump selected him as border czar, Homan told a New York radio station that Canada could be a “gateway for terrorists” entering the United States.
He called the border an “extreme national security vulnerability” and said he would address it from the White House.
At the time, Homan called for more agents along the northern border and urged Canada to enforce its immigration laws.
Then-Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said both countries had an interest in a safe border and that Canada took border security seriously.
Homan kept pressing the issue after Trump took office. In January 2025, he told Fox News he wanted to work with U.S. lawmakers on illegal crossings, narcotics, and security vulnerabilities along the northern border.
In March, he said the administration would begin shifting personnel and technology north as crossings at the southern border fell.
In his latest interview, Homan said he had visited the northern border’s sectors over the previous three months. He said their needs varied, including more agents, drones, aircraft, and other equipment.
Drug trafficking was also listed as a threat and said cooperation with Canada would be essential.
“I think the United States and Canada both want … [to] shut down cross-border crime because it’s not good for either country,” Homan said.
