Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>> 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
 EH> area.
 EH>>> She was shot and killed last year by a mentally ill local, though.

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

 EH> They are erecting a memorial monument in her honor in Port Angeles.

That's good to hear. We just don't do enough for the people who serve us.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

fcpnmimi(at)cox.net

http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi

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mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When
people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been
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