Today's Seattle Times reports that "North border crossings born of desperation"
Into the predawn blackness sailed a Pakistani man, his pregnant wife and their 1- and 3-year-old children, another Pakistani, three adults from India and the Canadian man allegedly hired to deliver them to the United States, a half-mile across the [Niagra] river.The article doesn't say why these people were so desperate to get out of Canada, but whatever it was must have been pretty bad. I blame universal health care. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 12, 2004 10:31 AM
Could be the gun registry......or taxes.....or...... *shrugs*
Posted by: Kevin P. on July 12, 2004 03:36 PMBecause of bilingualism, the backs of cereal boxes are in French. And the metric system.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega on July 12, 2004 07:19 PMLaugh all you want, Canada is a reservoir of Islamist terror supporters. Also it seems a shame that Bush did not conquer Pakistan along with Afghanistan. Then maybe people wouldn't flee there.
We've had articles in the paper here about refugees coming from the US. They said that the US has become a very harsh place since 911. They didn't mention that all of them had immigrated to the US illegally with their families on visitor's visas alone. After a few years when the US started investigating illegals they came here as refugees.
Posted by: Michael on July 13, 2004 03:46 PM