Re: [OM] OT: American Refugees in Canada

[John Hudson]

People commute regularly between the USA and Canada without even leaving 
the privacy of their own homes !
Just a week or two ago our press carried a story about a couple looking 
to sell their home in Quebec. The front door was accessed from the 
Canadian side and the back door opened up into the USA with the border 
splitting the house in two.
To get into the back door from the front of the house the owners had to 
go via US Customs down the road.
Sounds funny? Not really. US Customs was serious. Break the rules and 
get caught the owners could have been looking at a US$5,000 fine per 
incident.
Seems that the trouble started with the in-house border problem was when 
Trump took up as POTUS.
No news update on whether the sellers have found a buyer.

jh


On 2017-08-10 10:12 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> [Snip] There's been immigration both ways across the US-Canadian border for
> centuries.
>
> Indeed. When I lived in Lewiston, NY my barber was Canadian although, when
> he took ill, he returned home for treatment.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >       No, these are not natural-born US citzens, but instead are mostly
> > Haitian refugees from the 2010 earthquake:
> > > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40879544
> > Canada has a law that we won't take refugees who are already in a
> > "safe third country" so, for example, a Syrian cannot apply for
> > refugee status here if he or she is already in the US or most of
> > Europe, but the ones in refugee camps near the conflict can apply.
> > That has been controversial; some on the left claim the US is not
> > currently safe for Muslims so we should take more. Last I heard, the
> > government was still saying no to that.
> >
> > A complication is that provinces can have their own programs to
> > encourage whatever they consider the right sort of immigrant & the
> > feds co-operate by providing visas. Quebec wants French speakers, so
> > they let in a lot of Haitians, Cameroonians, etc.
> >
> > >       Oddly, just yesterday the BBC here had an article about an American
> > family who emigrated from Charleston, SC to Halifax, NS.  Seafood should be
> > cheap, eh?
> >
> > There's been immigration both ways across the US-Canadian border for
> > centuries.
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