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

On 2025-03-23 12:23 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

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.

 

https://ibb.co/3YNCz3BV

 

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.

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

Are you going to tell American hockey fans that hockey is being banished from America or do you want me to do that? ;-)
I *know* Chicago has a hockey team and that some of them actually travel to Canada to watch their team play there. (I once chatted with a Chicagoan on a flight from Toronto to Chicago who told me she was on her way back from a game the previous night.) I expect people like that may be miffed with you if they found out you had closed the border to hockey ;-)
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Rhino