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So Donald Trump wants more border security? Here's how the RCMP is ramping up efforts

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Canada made a $1.3-billion pledge to beef up border security in hopes of staving off U.S. President Donald Trump ’s tariff threats.

More than half of the money allocated over six years will go to the Mounties and $355 million to the Canada Border Services Agency .

Drones are a crucial part of the unit's surveillance of water bodies.

Data show illegal firearms and drugs are coming into Canada from south of the border at an alarming pace.

Canada Border Services Agency has seized at least 2,345 firearms coming from the U.S. since 2022 .

More than 24,000 kilograms of various drugs, including more than two kilograms of fentanyl, have also been confiscated during the same period.

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