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“When I’m working a car, I’m always glancing at the next one behind,” Dean later told the Seattle Times . “If it looks like grandma and grandpa…it probably is. You’re going to ask different questions depending on whether they have U.S. or Canadian plates. You eyeball that person and see if what they look like matches with who they say they are.” To Dean, everyone seems like “regular, nor- mal people.” Everyone, that is, except the man with a fake name in a car he doesn’t own that is crammed with explosives. Later, in the final chapter “Mission Accomplished,” find out how this potentially deadly enemy was prevented from entering the United States. First, read more about how border security experts do their work.

Anyone driving into the United States can be stopped and questioned. Agents check that they have the right papers and identification.

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