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Canadian Border Tightens Due to Info Sharing
blu3 b0y writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that new information sharing agreements have made it as easy for a Canadian border officer to know the full criminal records of US citizens as it is for their local police. As a result, Canadian officials are turning away American visitors for ancient minor convictions, including 30-year-old shoplifting and minor drug possession convictions. Officials claim it's always been illegal to enter Canada with such convictions without getting special dispensation, they just had no good way of knowing about them until recent security agreements allowed access. One attorney speculates it's not long before this information will be shared with other countries as well, causing immigration hassles worldwide."
And people say the US is a police state. At least here people with 30-year-old shoplifting and minor drug possession convictions can aspire to become a senator!
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I guess the border patrol will switch over to the string tied sweatpants.
Something witty goes here.
So that means that Bush won't be traveling to Canada any time soon, due to his DUI conviction?
Sure, blame Canada.
Other countries can turn our people away, but we can't seem to turn other counties people away.
That's because WE'RE NUMBER 1! WOOO GO USA!
GET A BRAIN, MORANS! [sic.]
Latewire
... as someone who was recently refused a visitors' visa to the USA because I've worked 1 month in Saudi Arabia as a CRM consultant, I can't help a grin followed by an "oh bummer!"
I guess that the "keep our country to the locals" isn't so nice when you're on the other side of the border, isn't it?
Please mod me flamebait, but I really couldn't help it :D
Border. It's a fucking "border". And I here I was thinking Americans had a monopoly on bad schools.
where sentences and conviction travel at lightspeed while the indentured
populations stay on the plantation?
"Boy why would you want to go up north anyway? Who would be to keep you
and feed you?"
Remember being warned in school that our offenses would be put on our "permanent record"? Well, see!? It was true. No all you naughty children will pay the price! Ha! Ha! Ha!
His joke wasn't about it being easy to 'legally' live in the us as a foreign national. The irony is that it's easier to live in the U.S. illegally than trying to do it legally. Something I joke about with my foreign fiancee, that if we have too, we'll just honeymoon in Mexico and I'll sneak her back in. =P
Cheers,
Fozzy
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." ~1984 George Orwell
I'll buy the booze and rent them a car.
Does anyone know where you can rent a Pinto or Propane truck?
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