Most of the attention has been on the Mexican side of the border, but there are signs that the Canadian side of the border is heating up. Not only is it going to be a major vector for illegal aliens leaving the U.S. to head to Canada, drug trafficking rose 600% on the northern border. Some of that is due to the Trudeau government and some due to the focus on the southern border by an overwhelmed Border Patrol.

The danger has been rising for some time and it appears to have now gone hot. Lethally.

Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday afternoon while conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 91.

It happened around 3:15 p.m. near the Coventry-Newport town line. Sources tell WCAX the agent was fatally shot in the neck and died. One of the suspects was also killed and another was wounded.

Details are still coming in, but I would suspect we’re looking at a drug trafficking operation.

People tend to think of Canada border drug smuggling as being about marijuana, but that’s outdated. Pot no longer needs to be smuggled across the border, but instead it’s becoming a vector for fentanyl and meth.

That’s a much uglier and more violent business.

Add on the growing presence of Chinese organized drug crime in New England that has been neglected by the federal government which had already turned deadly in Maine, and we’re looking at a whole other border war.