EXCLUSIVE — Voters nationwide view the U.S.-Canada border as a neglected national security item, with a large swath willing to support increased federal spending to bolster America’s northern boundary, according to a new poll released Tuesday and first obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Seventy percent of U.S. voters polled between May 12 and 13 said they were concerned about the flow of illegal goods and drugs, as well as dangerous criminals, into the United States by way of the Canadian border, according to Building America’s Future, a political nonprofit group funded by Elon Musk that backs Republican candidates.