The six Canada–United States border crossings where you are legally allowed to cross without inspection
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[WP] At the start of 2020, Canada loses contact with the rest of the world. Everyone abroad cease to exist online, well-known or not. Canadians cross the border only to be met by a pre-Industrial United States. The land had gone back in time to the 18th century and the rest of the world is the same.
TIL Canada has only experienced one lynching in its history- in 1884, when a mob from The United States crossed the border into Brittish Columbia to lynch an indian teen who had fled after being accused of murder.
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TIL there is a street that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Homes on the south side of the street are in the United States while homes on the north side are in Canada. Anyone who crosses the street without reporting it to Customs can be prosecuted.
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TIL Peace Arch State Park is an international park between US and Canada. Visitors do not require either a passport or visa to pass through their applicable border crossing so long as they stay within the boundaries of the park and leave the park into the country from which they entered the park
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Hundreds of Central American migrants blocked a border crossing Thursday between the Mexican city of Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas, demanding the United States let them in to apply for asylum
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TIL The Jay Treaty, signed in 1794, provides that American Indians may travel freely across the Canadian-US border. Native Indians born in Canada are entitled to freely enter the United States for the purpose of employment, study, retirement, investing, and/or immigration.
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An Inside Look at All the Data CBP Collects About Everyone Crossing U.S. Borders [United States of America]
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@NicholsUprising: The San Ysidro Port of Entry—which separates Tijuana, Mexico, from California’s San Diego County & the promise of the United States—is the busiest land border crossing in the world. US forces just closed it, and started lobbing tear gas canisters at children seeking to cross it.
An Inside Look at All the Data CBP Collects About Everyone Crossing U.S. Borders [United States of America]
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LPT: If you live close to a border country (Mexico or Canada) in the United States, order Dominos pizza from that border country. You just helped an illegal immigrant cross into America.
“About 1-in-5 illegal alien adults crossing the United States-Mexico border with toddlers under the age of five are either criminals, not the child’s parent, or present some other danger to the child...”
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"McDonald Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada, is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 254 miles above North America" on 16 Oct 2019. "The coal-mining city of Estevan, at the lake's southeast end surrounded by prairies and farms, is 10 miles north of the United States border of North Dakota"
Air Canada said today that it will gradually suspend the majority of its international and U.S. transborder flights by March 31, 2020 in response to decisions by national governments, including Canada and the United States, to close borders and restrict commercial aviation as a result of COVID19
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The Canadian government is weighing the chances of a potential surge in asylum seekers illegally crossing into Canada from the United States as the weather improves, a government minister said on Tuesday
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TIL The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and United Kingdom over the British-U.S. border in the San Juan Islands between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the State of Washington. The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday extended the deployment of National Guard troops along the state's border with Mexico to help block illegal crossings by unaccompanied children into the United States.
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