Moving Target: Kash Patel Says Chinese, Russians Are Now Exploiting a Different Border—'The Enemy Adapts'

President Trump has shown remarkable success in shutting down the southern border, which Joe Biden left open for virtually anyone from anywhere to slip through illegally into our country. Tens of millions of illegal aliens were basically welcomed in by Joe’s failed administration, but Border Czar Tom Homan

 and company put an end to that almost immediately after Trump took over on January 20.

But with success comes new challenges, and FBI Director Kash Patel

 warned on Wednesday that our adversaries are now honing in on a new target: our northern border with Canada.

During testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, Patel told lawmakers that the "effective resolution" to the crisis at the southern border has caused adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran to shift their resources to targeting the U.S. northern border.

"The enemy adapts," Patel said.

The Trump administration’s achievements in the south have thoroughly repudiated the lies that Joe Biden told about how all he needed was “legislation.” It was always in his power to put a stop to it, yet he refused for reasons that will be debated for years.

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But that doesn’t mean the threat is over, as Patel noted:

The sudden silence at the southern border comes after record-setting numbers of illegal crossings during the four years of the Biden administration, a trend that also saw a dramatic increase in attempted crossings from immigrants outside of North and Latin America.

Chinese nationals were among the most likely to attempt illegal crossings, with the number of crossings from citizens of the country rising to over 24,000 in 2023, a more than 5,200% increase from the 450 encounters just a year earlier, according to CBP data.

Overall, Patel told lawmakers that between 2022 and 2025, roughly 178,000 Chinese nationals attempted to cross the southern border.

Patel warned that the new security of the southern border could now open up threats to the north, arguing that U.S. adversaries will use the same tactics they previously used on sectors not receiving as much security attention.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) is cognizant of the threat, and noted that the numbers were rising in her neck of the woods:

I asked our Intelligence Community leaders how we can work to ensure terrorists no longer exploit our Northern Border.

She thanked Patel for taking the matter seriously:

The Trump administration’s wins at the southern border are absolutely stunning, but that doesn't mean that our security challenges have suddenly disappeared. The difference this time around: instead of the feckless, gaslighting former Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas and completely useless former Border Czar Kamala Harris, we actually have folks in charge who we can trust to treat this issue with the attention it deserves.

We won in the south. Now it's time to win in the north.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.