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.
October 6, 2016
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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