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

On Mar 27, 2025 at 7:41:12 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
 

Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net> wrote:
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Just a follow-up to the story.

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As of yesterday, the library has received over $150,000
in donations to be used to add an entrance on the Canadian
side of the building plus a parking area on the Canadian
side.

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Louise Penny, a Canadian author (of a mystery series I
enjoy) who lives in a nearby region of Quebec, contributed
$50,000 to the fund.

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I hope that the Canadian patrons of the library can eventually
enjoy the facility without any additional hassles from the
customs and immigration folks, but I guess we'll see what
happens.

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Nyssa, who hopes for the best, but these days figures on the
not-so-good happening instead

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What a complete waste of money, and I suppose this cuts off the economy
of the two neighboring towns in half.

 I found another spot several miles east of that town where the border seems to
cross through the front yard of someone's home on the American side and CBP
seems to have come along and blocked off the road running next to their home
and to prevent people from just driving around the road block, they also seem
to have put a bunch of boulders across the yard of the homeowner.
 https://ibb.co/4wdQr3jc
 I wonder if that's considered a taking and if the government had to pay them
to put a barricade through their property.