Female jogger accidentally crosses the US/Canadian border - held in custody for 2 weeks!

I call bullshit. Even in the most barren areas the border is clearly marked.

John Utah wrote:

HRH wrote:

USA is becoming like North Korea and the old Soviet Union.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/french-jogger-crosses-us-canada-border-detained-two-weeks-a8413141.html

Wow you are stupid. The communist countries shot their own citizens and put up walls primarily in an effort to keep THEIR OWN CITIZENS IN!!!! Just think about that for a second. Brainificate if you can, but don’t hurt yourself.

Really?

Since the USA snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the Korean War, (1950-53) destroying every town and city in NK and killing 30 percent of its population, I’m not aware that North Korea has invaded any country since.

The USA meanwhile has been responsible for the death of millions of innocents and produced many millions more refugees by its homicidal (and illegal) actions in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Serbia. The USA is easily the most aggressive and toxic nation on earth.

HRH wrote:

USA is becoming like North Korea and the old Soviet Union.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/french-jogger-crosses-us-canada-border-detained-two-weeks-a8413141.html

How many people were trying to sneak into those countries?

Also, stop with the silly hyperbole.

If 288 people were arrested in this area last year as the story states, then someone should probably consider better signage in the area.

Still seems crazy that it took 2 weeks for the documents to get verified and cleared up. Sounds like it took the Canadians 2 weeks to verify her documents.

Kenyans FTW wrote:

I call bullshit. Even in the most barren areas the border is clearly marked.

Me too. Call BS. How can this happen? It's just another story to fire up the divisiveness in Canada. Canadians love to hate on their neighbours and think they are all better. It's been that way for years, as long as I can remember.

Canadians that boycott travel because of these stories are doing themselves a disservice. Enjoy your vacation to crowded Vancouver island and the overcrowded hyped Butchard gardens. Yawn. I'll be in Kona on a beach drinking fine coffee!

Runningart2004 wrote:

I’m not sure how one could mistakenly run into the US along the beach there. From google maps it looks pretty obvious you are crossing into the US.

Alan

Well the article says 288 people did it last year so it must be pretty easy.

You are looking at Google maps and she is out running in area that she might not be familiar with.

Years ago I was running trails and wandered onto private property. The owner caught me (he was very nice) and I told him there was no sign. We were not far from where I entered and when we got to the entry point the sign had fallen and was covered by leaves and dirt.

It did not take 2 weeks to straighten it out luckily.

(The wandering into a pot field in NC is a far scarier story.)

Kenyans FTW wrote:

I call bullsit. Even in the most barren areas the border is clearly marked.

Not sure what barren means to you, but no, they don't paint a stripe between Manitoba and North Dakota.

USA is great!!! wrote:

Kenyans FTW wrote:

I call bullshit. Even in the most barren areas the border is clearly marked.

Me too. Call BS. How can this happen? It's just another story to fire up the divisiveness in Canada. Canadians love to hate on their neighbours and think they are all better. It's been that way for years, as long as I can remember.

Canadians that boycott travel because of these stories are doing themselves a disservice. Enjoy your vacation to crowded Vancouver island and the overcrowded hyped Butchard gardens. Yawn. I'll be in Kona on a beach drinking fine coffee!

There is no lack of reasons for Canadians to despise the US. The list keeps growing.

There are plenty of other places to go on holiday other than the US. These days many Canadians would rather burn their money than spend it in the US.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

This case defines stupidity. While jogging, she crosses an unmarked border on the beach and is taken away and held for two weeks, despite identification being brought.

Exactly. Brain-dead immigration authorities "just following orders".

A Canadian wrote:

Between Trump, the TSA, and the US Border Police, no one wants to intentionally visit the US. .

Your statement reminds me of words attributed to Yogi Berra: Nobody goes there anymore: it’s too crowded.

South Surrey wrote:

Runningart2004 wrote:

I’m not sure how one could mistakenly run into the US along the beach there. From google maps it looks pretty obvious you are crossing into the US.

Alan

Very easy to cross on 0 ave . On the Canadian side is a paved road. South of the Road (USA) , is a park , with no markers near the Peace Arch crossing. A typical situation is Americans waiting in long lines coming into canada , walk there dogs in this park, and walk on the road, which is actually Canada. happens all the time .

Sure but that's coming into Canada. Canada has common sense.

Really Bro wrote:

Kenyans FTW wrote:

I call bullsit. Even in the most barren areas the border is clearly marked.

Not sure what barren means to you, but no, they don't paint a stripe between Manitoba and North Dakota.

Also Maine/ New Brunswick or really anywhere along the St Lawrence.

Why are people surprised? The borders are there to keep intruders out regardless of intentions. There is no oopsy and do over. There are consequences. And I don't 100% buy her innocent explanation or the least we shouldn't w/o further investigation. So that takes 2 weeks with her being a foreigner in a foreign land crossing into another.

HRH wrote:

USA is becoming like North Korea and the old Soviet Union.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/french-jogger-crosses-us-canada-border-detained-two-weeks-a8413141.html

It's been that way for years. When I was young, we were always proud that in the US one could travel freely, unlike in the USSR where one always had to have papers, and the secret police were always watching you.

Now we live in Soviet America, where one has to have papers, and the secret police are always trying to watch and listen in, and are some of the biggest enemies to encryption safety.

Nonsense. Her mother brought documentation that gave her a legal right to be in Canada, and probably to get a tourist stamp into the U.S. That documentation was shown very quickly, so it should have been settled. This was just very poor judgment on the part of the American ICE officials.

Moo Goo wrote:

Why are people surprised? The borders are there to keep intruders out regardless of intentions. There is no oopsy and do over. There are consequences. And I don't 100% buy her innocent explanation or the least we shouldn't w/o further investigation. So that takes 2 weeks with her being a foreigner in a foreign land crossing into another.

I’ve beem there. There is no sign of anything to indicate where specifically the border is, it’s pretty easy to accidentally cross. I don’t fault the border guards for detaining her initially, the real issue is why it took two weeks to sort out that it was an accident and what to do with her.

It’s pretty easy wrote:

Moo Goo wrote:

Why are people surprised? The borders are there to keep intruders out regardless of intentions. There is no oopsy and do over. There are consequences. And I don't 100% buy her innocent explanation or the least we shouldn't w/o further investigation. So that takes 2 weeks with her being a foreigner in a foreign land crossing into another.

I’ve beem there. There is no sign of anything to indicate where specifically the border is, it’s pretty easy to accidentally cross. I don’t fault the border guards for detaining her initially, the real issue is why it took two weeks to sort out that it was an accident and what to do with her.

And meanwhile, it seems your Democratic Party encourages millions of illegal’s to flood into the USA from south of the border, on the concept that they are future Democratic voters.

......while the Republicans dismantle the Department of Education, presumably on the belief that the uneducated will vote Republican.

She should sue the usa for human rights violations. North korea would have released her faster

Kenyans FTW wrote:

I call bullshit. Even in the most barren areas the border is clearly marked.

Agreed. The border agents say they caught her on camera, so obviously there was at least a pole with a camera on it to mark the border. And as another poster said, the reason it took two weeks for her to get back across was because of the inefficient Canadian bureaucracy.