Canadian Border Tour - the "other border"
Center for Immigration Studies - CIS - out of Washington DC has offered week long, in depth tours of the US / Mexican border for the past several years. This year, eastern Canada was the destination as we studied the Canadian border with New York and Vermont.
2016-10-06
One of many markers delineating the border of Canada and the United States
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CIS border tour group. The man to the far right is a retired Border Patrol agent that spent 2 days educating us about the issues faced on the northern border
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Aside from designated international border crossing points, for the most part, this is the extent of the border fence on our northern border.
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Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway make up most of the New York / Canada border
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Halfway House - the border line divides it in half
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Inside the Halfway House - the building is divided in half. New York and Canada share a building!
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