Vermont businesses watch anxiously as Canadians turned away at U.S. border

[inanna]

Source: CBC

Posted: Mar 09, 2017 4:28 PM ET

For years, Mark Bouchett has depended on Canadian visitors to keep his business afloat.

The owner of Homeport, a sprawling, three-floor home furniture store on historic Church Street in Burlington, Vt., Bouchett has been anxiously following recent reports of Canadian passport holders turned away at the U.S. border.

"When the economy makes the dollar favourable, we see Canadians come down here all the time, and they have a good time, and they're spending their money," he said.

"When things change, it hurts our business."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-us-border-vermont-passport-businesses-1.4017676?cmp=rss

[luvMIdog]

1. yup don't nobody wanna come here

[karynnj]

4. You misread the article - Canadians have been stopped at the border

This includes Canadian citizens -- if they have ethnic roots that the US is sucspicious of.

[luvMIdog]

5. oh thanks - I skimmed sorry

[PoliticAverse]

2. "there's no evidence of an overall increase in cases of Canadians being turned away at the border"

heck of a line to bury in a story like this.

[Girard442]

3. I was on a cruise recently with brief stops in Mexico and Honduras.

The Mexicans and Hondurans were never anything but gracious and friendly, which was entirely to their credit, but a little bit I was rooting for them to be ballbusters.

Yeah, I know. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot. I couldn't seriously wish for that, but still.

[mpcamb]

10. Mexicans hate trump and Nieto too.

That's been the consistent theme down here.

[progree]

6. "They include a Muslim woman from Brossard ... a Montreal woman of South Asian parentage ..."

They include a Muslim woman from Brossard who was headed to Burlington to buy a toy for her son, a student athlete from Sherbrooke, also a Muslim, who'd been set to compete in a track and field meet in Boston and a Montreal woman of South Asian parentage who had planned a spa day in Stowe.

[DFW]

7. My wife was once harassed at the Vermont border by an idiot agent of CBP a couple of years ago

She is a German citizen. She was visiting a GF who lives in Vermont near the Canadian border. This was in August, and she had entered the USA from Germany in July. A couple of months back, she had also come over with me for a few days for our nephew's college graduation in Washington, DC. She comes to the USA a lot with me, and so her passport has a lot of American entry stamps.

Her Vermont friend invited her for lunch over the border in Canada, and so she went, suspecting nothing. On the way back, some nearly illiterate CBP officer looked at her passport and asked when she was going back to Germany. She told him the date, and he blew up shouting that she was overstaying her allowed number of days by one. She was confused until she realized the jerk couldn't find her July entry stamp, and only saw the May entry stamp. Thinking quickly (something the CBP idiot was not capable of), she told him, that of course, she had told him the day she was arriving back in Germany, but the flights always left the night before. He was happy with this explanation and let her back into the USA. It seemed like the more practical solution than telling him he was an illiterate jerk, and pointing out the July entry stamp to him, and embarrassing him in front of his peers.

A friend of mine used to be Canada's ambassador to the USA. He was the finest foreign service officer of ANY country I have ever known (I couldn't get him to defect--his uncle was PM at the time, and probably wouldn't have approved anyway). I think if he were there now, he would have turned in his resignation, saying that he had taken hostile posts before, but never one THIS hostile.

[yuiyoshida]

8. Just wait, pretty soon you won't be able to Enter Canada or Mexico or even

Fly to Europe. Its coming, a total complete Republican Travel Ban, no one comes in, no one gets out.

[March 4th]

9. Sure, those Canucks SEEM Harmless

But Denis Leary scoped 'em out years ago: They're planning to invade us on skates and take our precious American Cheese!

[democratisphere]

11. Looks like the northern wall is already under construction.

MAGA MYASS!