GOP: Tighter southern border leaves Michigan’s Canadian border enticing to criminals

DETROIT, MI — Michigan is at the “epicenter of a northern border crisis,” U.S. Sen. John James said at a Detroit event in June. But since President Donald Trump took office, encounters with “removable aliens” have been cut in half at the Michigan border – mirroring numbers across the northern and southwest border.

Still, GOP leaders are concerned about the vulnerability of Michigan’s entryways to the nation in Detroit, Port Huron and Sault Ste. Marie.