At The Safest Town In America, People Go Through Four Border Crossings A Day

There are several places where you may be in the US but must cross the Canadian border to get anywhere else inside America – and vice versa. It’s common to be able to cross the border without a passport. For instance,

• Presque Isle, Maine borders Canada – and there’s even a golf club just over the border in Canada, where Americans park in the lot, and go play golf in Canada. (The location for the club was originally picked as a legal way to circumvent Prohibition.)
• Estcourt, Maine has homes that are partially in the United States – and partially in Quebec.
• You can drive from the U.S. onto Cornwall Island in Canada without going through a border checkpoint – which is actually north, in mainland Canada. Canadian residents of the island, which is in Canada, have to go through a border checkpoint to go elsewhere inside their own country.
• At both the International Peace Garden between North Dakota and Manitoba, and the Peace Arch at the main border crossing between Seattle and Vancouver, you can walk around inside of a park and enter the other country from either side of the border without restriction.

No one has thought of building a wall along these places and making Mexico pay for it.

Washington can only be reached from other points in the US and Canada. The 49th parallel was drawn as the US border in 1847.

There is no checkpoint between the US and Canada. All but essential traffic can't enter the U.S. and Canada. Friends meet in parks to spend time together, but they stay on their own side of the border. People are sometimes shooed away.

Since they have to leave the country and come back, children have to cross four borders every day. Anyone going to the hospital has to do this as well. The town is considered to be the safest place in America because of the large law enforcement presence.

Residents with U.S. health insurance have to travel to other cities in Washington State to get treated by U.S. providers. It might be the least free due to the checkpoint. There are no drugstores or veterinarians there.

Canada is trying to acquire Point Roberts from the US. Canadians own 75% of the properties that are not currently accessible. President Trump wanted to buy the island nation. There are precedents.

The video looks at Point Roberts.

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