Re: US-CBP Closes Border-Straddling Library Entrance to Canadidians

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:03:10 -0700, BTR1701 wrote:

On Mar 23, 2025 at 9:23:50 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman""<ahk@chinet.com>  wrote:
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
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STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) - For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec
have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the
border-straddling
Haskell Free Library and Opera House - no passport required.

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https://ibb.co/3YNCz3BV

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But municipal and library officials said on Friday that U.S. authorities have
unilaterally decided to end the century-old unwritten agreement. Coming at a
time of heightened tensions between the two countries, the decision is
prompting an outpouring of emotion in communities on both sides of the
border,
which in places has been marked simply by flower pots.

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Thank gawd. It's important to spend $10s of millions on preventing
illicit Canadians from entering Vermont in order to patronize a library.
This has been an outrage for more than a century.

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Not to mention, they leave a sticky residue of maple syrup everywhere they
go.

Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon (1995) might be his most
relevant movie.

I can add that what's called "canadian bacon" in the
grocery store is a fat-free ham, as if pork should ever be
fat-free!

BTW, what are tariffs being slapped on Canada for?
It's not like a mass illegal immigration from Canada
is being imposed by government policy, unlike Mexico.
Maybe Trump is concerned about the mass immigration to
Canada and tariffs (sales taxes) are imposed by the USA
to help Canada see the errors of it's ways, out of
sympathy. It's just about time there's become a president
sympathetic to other countries.

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Riverdale for six seasons on the CW (must die) exposed the horrors of
maple syrup trafficking disguising manufactured illicit drug smuggling.
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Let's keep all that all that hockey hullabaloo on the other side
of the border!

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And that bitch Anne Murray, too!