Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 EH>>>>> It's the same way with the Canadian border. Going
from here to
 MG>>>> there is
 EH>>>>> a breeze, but coming back you better have a passport or the
 MG>> little ID
 EH>>>>> card or it will take you some time to prove you are
a US citizen.

 MG>>>> That's good to know. Canada's border used to be pretty porous.

 EH>>> Actually, it still is. Much of the border is wilderness. They
 EH> recently
 EH>>> found a drug smuggling ring bringing pot from BC into Washington.
 MG>> There
 EH>>> were several pounds of pot stashed along the path that crossed the
 EH>>> border. The DEA, Washington State Patrol and RCMP did a joint
 MG>> operation
 EH>>> to round up the smugglers.

 MG>> The Mexican border used to be like that and I suppose there is still
 MG>> some to a lesser degree, but the Cartel thugs are too busy killing
 EH> each
 MG>> other and the occasional innocent tourist to be getting much of it
 MG>> across the border. A few years back the government made Border
 EH> Patrol's
 MG>> job harder by merging Customs and Border Patrol into the same
 MG>> department. Now we have our already too burdened officers even more
 MG>> burdened.

 EH> That's how it is in the Canadian border too as far as the Customs is
 EH> concerned. Historically, the Canadian border has only been a problem
 EH> between the west side of the Great Lakes to the East coast. The only
 EH> real trouble around here is the occasional drug smuggling. This last
 EH> time the stuff was about $2million on the street.

 EH> Then there as the Muslim terrorist who tried to enter through Port
 EH> Angeles with a car full of explosives back in 2000. An alert Customs
 EH> agent happened to thwart that effort. She's a local hero in that area.
 EH> She was shot and killed last year by a mentally ill local, though.

She was a hero. That really sucks that she was killed. Along with America's
lack of interest in those who literally put their lives on the line for us
add CBP to that list.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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