I would recommend you stay away from the US border. A young French woman who went for an evening jog along a Canadian beach spent two weeks in US immigration detention after accidentally straying across the border.
She stopped to take a picture before retracing her steps, when she was apprehended by US border officials.
Officers took her more than 220km (136 miles) south to a privately run immigration prison in Washington state.
She had no identification, so she was held in a room with about 100 other people. "We were locked up all the time and in the yard there was barbed wire and dogs," she told French news agency AFP.
She was allowed to contact her mother who came to the detention facility with her passport and work permit, but US officials would not let her leave until Canadian immigration authorities confirmed she was allowed back into the country.
She was eventually allowed to return, but only 15 days after she set off on her jog.
Also, a British family was detained in the US after crossing the border by driving across a small ditch from from Canada.
They claimed it was an accident, but US officials said it was deliberate.
All seven people detained after the incident were "successfully repatriated back to the United Kingdom".
So, stay away from the US border if at all possible. They aren’t nice to foreigners down there.
They’ve gone totally paranoid on us.
The last time I went down to the US, the border patrol stopped me and searched my car as I was LEAVING the US.
What?
Does the US have exit controls now?
Are they trying to catch people smuggling legal marihuana OUT of the United States? I know they have started searching American cars driving near the border.
And now they are severely miffed at us for banning Americans from coming to Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A senator thinks Biden should unilaterally reopen the border.
How? Send tanks?
David Moe
