Using the PATRIOT Act to Fight Terrorism
Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
Today I am here to talk about the PATRIOT Act and how its core tools are essential to the success of the single most important mission of the Department of Homeland Security — to prevent another terrorist attack from happening in the United States.I’ve said it many times. We share nearly 7,500 miles of land border with Canada and Mexico, across which more than 400 million people, 130 million motor vehicles, and 2.5 million rail cars pass every year.We patrol almost 95,000 miles of shoreline and navigable waters, and 361 ports that see 8,000 foreign flag vessels, 9 million containers…
