I don’t know if the border situation will change under President Obama but the way it is right now with their bogus “War on Terror,” it’s a wonder anyone goes through their customs and immigration at all.

Back in the seventies I lived in Sarnia, Ontario which is across the border from Port Huron Michigan and 60 miles north of Detroit. (Not that we ever went there, it was a lot better to go 200 miles to Toronto, at least you were safe there!)

But, being in Sarnia we went to the mall in Port Huron without a thought and basically no questions at the border.

“Where do you live?”

“Sarnia.”

“Where are you going?”

“To the Mall!”

“O.K.”

Same thing if we wanted to go out on a Friday or Saturday night.

It was as if the border didn’t exist..... didn’t even have to show I.D.

However, since 9/11 things have gotten way out of hand and although they are not putting a fence up along the Canadian border like they are down south the hassle of dealing with border guards make the trip an inconvenience that I can do without!

An Australian family who traveled to the US to visit a dying relative were accused of attempting to illegally immigrate by US Customs and Border Patrol officials this week.

The border guards caged them, detained them, starved them overnight, and then sent them back on the next flight to Australia.

The US consulate’s only comment? “We reserve the right to refuse entry to visitors to the United States.”

Over 24 hours, officers questioned the Thornleigh taxi driver and his aged-care worker wife, patted them down and searched their luggage before sending them to a detention centre in a caged van.

They were then taken to a hotel with other detainees at 2.30am to sleep with armed guards by their bedside before being woken at 4.30am and put on a flight back to Sydney...

“They treated us like terrorists,” Mr Rabbi said. “We are Australian citizens. Why did they have to keep us in a detention centre? Why did they have to lock up my kids?”
Mr Rabbi says that when he explained he was in the US to visit his father, the officers threatened him.

Despite producing the family’s $6400 return tickets, dated February 5, he says the officers accused him of attempting to illegally stay in the US........!

I can sympathize with these people and personally I have found a way to solve this U.S. border problem.

I just don’t go!

Who needs the hassle?

If these assholes want my tourist money but have the balls to give me a hard time getting into the country I will go somewhere else. Period.

Last year, instead of going to Florida or Texas or California for a holiday we went to Scotland and Germany, and when it was all over they had over ten thousands dollars ($10,000-) of my money that would otherwise have gone into the States.

O.K. ten grand is not a fortune, but when you multiply that by a hundred thousand, or even a million people that’s a fair chunk of change bunky!

So, the answer to the “American” problem?

Simple kids!

If we want to go somewhere nice we go to British Columbia and if we want to get away from winter we amalgamate the Turks and Caico’s Island in the Caribbean (Like they want us to!) and make them our 11th Province!

Remember, Canada is not a foreign country......... Louisianna is!

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don’t want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !

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