55 Replies to “Reliving The Terrifying Hours When My Van Was Searched By Canadian Border Services On My Way Home From A Dog Show”

  1. And all those leftists, socialists, and government-worshippers think it’s a really good idea for government to take care of health insurance.
    Or implement a “Great Society”.
    Or try to fix “Climate Change”.
    Have they lost their minds?

  2. Have had the same type of problem from burnt out customs guys on an ego trip to create some diversion from what must be a horribly boring existence. Much like processing sardines at a canning plant.
    My wife and I were pulled over at Alberta border because I took too long to show my passport. Had to pull over and get a tongue lashing from an official with his hand leaning on his side arm telling how serious boarder crossing is considering 9/11.

  3. Crossing the US border, I once had my luggage opened and a dog sniffed it. All told it was a 30 minute delay. I wasn’t the slightest bit upset. What would make someone feel they are immune to US laws and they shouldn’t even be question? Aussie witch needs to toughen up.

  4. This isn’t news…Border guards/security have the Power. End of story. Travel enough, you’ll get pulled aside. She should be thankful it wasn’t a full cavity search…suck it up, buttercup…

  5. What airline was she flying on.. Usually all flights from Australia/Asia go through Customs & immigration before reaching LA…. Did she come from Japan? Something unusual…
    Kate: A few years ago my wife was somewhat flippant at the Canadian Border… after 4 hours the search ended. The Canadian Customs have always been policy square heads… They have a policy to cover everything including themselves….

  6. Apparently the Canadian Border Services are more interested in the pedigree of your dogs than they are in the illegal immigrant humans who, by the way, could also be carrying nasty disease.

  7. Crossing the border at Coutts. Was told to pull my pick up into a garage type building. Was taken into a room and left there. Hour later I saw my truck being driven across the lot. Another 20 minutes and a guy came in and said I could go. Asked him why my truck was being driven around. He said they exrayed it. Got in and the thing was a disaster. They dumped my glove box, counsel, and brief case items onto the floor.
    That was during Obamas reign.

  8. I’ve got news for the 10-fingers-10-toes activist book writer … many Muslims are missing fingers and toes for a variety of reasons all of which originate from their special brand of cultural and religious barbarity. You see sweetie-pie, digits in Muslim countries are severed as punishment for the universal five-finger-discount. THAT sort of behavior doe NOT make them my friends. It makes them retrogrades who don’t deserve a place in civilized society. As for their 10-toes … it’s hard for many Muslims to show any toes at all … after their feet have been blown-clear-off by an IED planted by Brand-X Muslim intended to maim or kill Brand-Y Muslim. Do I want THOSE kind of people showing up at my block party ? Hells No.
    And I am just curious Kate … did the border patrol ask “embarrassing” questions about your doggies haircuts ? Did you suffer unspeakable interrogation, insolence, and were you aggressively asked about your finances ? Did the Canadian border FASCISTS assume you were heading north to open a puppy mill ? Oh the HORROR. The HORROR.
    PS … I love telling the story of when I was “detained” at the San Diego airport … for the sole reason of “looking like” a drug-smuggler. I freely admit it … my hair was quite long, my skin reddened after a weekend in the sun, My RayBans were looking bad azz, I was dressed in a decidedly disheveled manner, and I was probably sweating profusely. So the FASICST DEA agents (they were something other than TSA) pulled me aside after PROFILING me as a drug dealer ! How DARE THEY ! I was just trying to FLY HOME from a travelling/competitive soccer tournament with my 12yo son. My son trembled and started to cry (he didn’t … but I want to spice-up my story for the Washington Post … he was actually laughing at me). They searched my bags … invasively. My little boy was patted-down for baggies of drugs ! They thought I was using my 12yo son as a DRUG MULE. They threatened to cavity search my little boy !! Out in public, in the middle of the concourse. The HORROR, the HORROR. It was so horrible, I clutched my chest as my rapidly beating heart, and my hyperventilation, caused me to nearly faint. I wondered aloud, what had become of my government who had apparently declared WAR on me for … “looking different from them”. Yadda, yadda, yadda. My son and I laughed about it all the way home … we thought it quite funny.
    I doubt the WAPO is interested in my humorous account of America’s border control. They only want to hear from “true victims” … like this aged, woman of EXTREME white privilege.

  9. Haha….expect a lot more of these stories to come out now. These “terrible” things that have been going on for 8 years or longer are all of a sudden indicative of a “new” scary America, all at the behest of a “scary” President.
    Too funny. I wonder what percentage of people are going to fall for this crap? 39%?

  10. No port of entry could be worse than Newark – sullen, hostile, demeaning, rude, indolent, and insolent.

  11. I’ve had a nexus card for 5 years never had an issue since, I cross at coutts all the time via truck or a motor home, same goes for flying

  13. I think warnings should be given when linking to The Washington Compost, the Slimes, or any of the alphabet networks. There is only so much batshit crazy I can take in a given day. You people do understand that this has never happened before January 20th, 2017 and it’s all Trump’s fault.

  14. Cry me a freakin river…for the last 5 years my very common name gets flagged in some new Border Patrol database every time one of my namesakes gets in trouble with US law enforcement or the DOJ (e.g. one guy skipped out on child support payments). Normally this just means a 1 hour delay while they decide I am not the guy they are looking for (which is easy because for some reason they are all black guys) and update their files. But I have been taken out of my car and escorted in on multiple occasions. I have been advised that if one of these scumbags were flagged as armed-and-dangerous, the officer would draw their gun and I’d be put in handcuffs. I now warn the officer about this when I give them my passport but it is still a major PITA and it freaks out my family when we cross.

  15. One hundred and seventeen (117) passages through US Customs and Immigration and she finally ran into an Immigration Officer who was grumpy and as a result she has an attack of the vapours?
    Although I’m tempted snidely say “Suck it up, Sweetie” I’ll shut up before she decides if she’s going to blame it all on George Bush, or Stephen Harper or Donald Trump.
    BCer

  16. They were polite and careful with my stuff. I probably just won the Random Search Lottery.
    Ha. My captcha is ROAD Hayes…

  17. Customs goons, despised since the times of Bible. Funny how so many here believe that random harassment of obviously innocent people by unaccountable jackbooted thugs is necessary and somehow justified because borders and illegal immigration. It isn’t you jackboot lickers. This entire security theater performed by affirmative action high school dropouts with delusions of adequacy does not keep you safe. The reason you have to submit to pointless harassment, threats and damage to your property for which you will never be compensated isn’t because they are doing their job. It is because they refuse to do their job and profile. It is because half of them should be profiled to start with.

  18. This is the asinine whining of an ignorant, arrogant, navel-gazing foreigner.
    She *should* feel ashamed to be human being: At 71 years old, she was still unaware of how borders work. Only U.S. citizens are entitled to enter the U.S. Same applies to Australia for Australians.
    As a legal alien who regularly travels to the States on business, it’s par for the course to get pulled aside if they suspect that you’re violating the terms of the visa you’ve requested (e.g. a tourism visa)… It’s happened to me and I’m from a NAFTA country, unlike this Australian. Be polite, concise and truthful. Americans owe you *nothing*.
    BTW. I do invite her to open her doors to strangers and welcome everyone into her home as a friend. That’s the “Merkel doctrine”. Like Merkel, she too might come to regret it.

  19. Well, unfortunately, the scum of the earth lives and breathes.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Ressam
    IIRC, Clinton was the President … the guy in charge of the jackboots … the jackboots that had the temerity to check this guy even after he went through customs!!!!!!!!!!!
    Impeach Clinton … oops, they already did that.

  20. Nothing new; when my Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather emigrated to the US from Switzerland in 1858, he wrote in his journal that he and his family were being held as “prisoners in this desired country”…

  21. I don’t fly or cross borders. Everything I need is available in Canada. I have no interest whatsoever in the United Snakes of Hysteria.

  23. This US Customs behavior is:
    A) common, and
    B) nothing new.
    I’ve seen this show before, for decades. Deliberate rudeness, stupidity, borderline violence, shouting. Oh. Yeah.
    This is why I fly INSIDE the USA, I do not fly -to- the USA. Worse comes to worst, even if they take your car and crush it looking for illegal fruit, you can -walk- home back across the border and hail a cab.
    Also:
    C) our Canadian border assholes are no better. As Kate says, may Ghu help you if you bought a case of beer in the USA.

  24. I wonder why she was so nervous? Something to hide?
    She obviously doesn’t understand that visiting foreign countries is a privilege.

  25. I noticed that too. The CBC was showing new border arrivals into Manitoba. They said they froze their fingers walking in thirty below weather and amazingly healed overnight.

  26. You’re right Phantom, no beefs with TSA, but I’d like to get that rookie Coutts Cdn Customs Asswipe in MY OWN milieu some day. If you show any interest in hunting, firearms, shooting, outdoor sportsman proclivities, etc. (ps- Wasn’t in possession of anything remotely questionable as to any threat or illegality) you’re targeted and fair game for the fifth degree! Indoctrinated idiots! Shoulda told him My real name- Mohammed Abdul Snagglepuss! Free pass assured.

  27. Crossing from Manitoba into Minnesota some years back, American customs stopped us. They searched our luggage and the entire car. A drug sniffing dog was called in. It was probably a mistake to wear my Grateful Dead T-shirt that day.

  28. You are a complete idiot, every time you post here you expose your liberal/socialist/Soros boot-licking sorry butt.
    The only reason why I don’t complain about taxes is because of the money spent on the very agencies which you berate. Our government’s JOB is to protect our borders, from those who are here and those coming to do harm to our nation. Unfortunately, our border agencies are more concerned with serving their current political masters and their globalist agenda of open borders than making the citizens of the country safe from all terrorist, both foreign and domestic.
    You should spend some time in a country with actual open borders, unchecked and wide open. Bet you would have a few stories which would rival or surpass these here and have a whole new appreciation of the work they do. But, mommy’s basement must be too comfortable for that.

  29. As far as US Customs was concerned, the question would be whether this “beloved children’s author” (of whom I’ve never heard) was coming in on a tourist visa and yet planning to work. And, yes, she was. Granted, her remuneration wasn’t great, but once she mentioned “honorarium”, it was obvious there were going to be issues. She was fortunate to be allowed in.

  30. Even before current airport security dog and pony show we have to contend with came into being, I was often taken aside while checking in at an airport and my carry-on luggage would be searched. Everything that I carefully packed or managed to cram into the bag was pulled out and examined. Of course, I couldn’t get it back in the same way and the people behind me would get mad because I was having problems doing so.
    I guess by wearing my hair short, looking clean-cut, and dressing respectably, I was deemed to be suspicious.
    In the past few weeks, I’ve flown several times because I have to travel to my father’s house to settle his estate. Twice I’ve been pulled out of the lineup for closer inspection. Once I was patted down and, another time, I was given a full body scan. The excuse was that those searches were “random”. Uh-huh…..

  32. As Kate alluded to on a recent thread, if Islamic terrorists are sneaking into the country in Canadian citizens’ undeclared goods, we can all sleep well tonight.
    Our borders are not manned for efficient security, they are manned for efficient tax collecting.

  33. What Uno really is espousing … is … a borderless world. A typical, shallow, John Lennon IMAGINE dreamer. If you would like to see Civilization utterly destroyed … then create a world without borders. Like it or not … humankind is Tribal. We don’t mix well with strange people who do strange things (like murder in the name of Allah). The clash of human cultures NEVER ends well.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-No_Bar

  34. About 20 years ago, I was on a driving vacation with my family. We started in Texas, and headed north until we reached Detroit and the crossing into Canada.
    We were detained for over an hour on the Canadian side. The searched our vehicle, and kept asking about “where are your firearms”? Apparently, they figured that anyone living in Texas always carried firearms with them.
    I was also hassled 10 years earlier when driving into Ontario from Niagara Falls. I was attending a business conference, told that to the customs officials, and they promptly tore apart my car looking for illicit business materials.
    It brought back memories of 10 years earlier than that, when at college we’d make a beer run to Canada, and the Canadian authorities made it seem like we were committing a horrific crime by buying in Canada and going to the USA. I can’t believe that there’s 1/10,000th as much scrutiny nowadays of border crossing individuals that there was of us college nerds wanting some beer….

  36. Kate, here’s the problem ….
    This is a complete non-story about an Australian nobody. But by linking to ANYTHING in the Washington Post, NY Times, or the rest of the fake news media you are HELPING them by driving traffic to their website. Higher traffic supports higher ad rates which keeps the fake news in business longer.
    Kate, pleeeease just ignore these jerks and NEVER link to them. We all already know that Trump and his administration will be blamed for every sparrow that gets eaten by a cat for the next 4 years (likely for 8) and then Prez 46 – Ivanka Trump, the first female president – will be blamed.
    Kate, we love your blog, but please count to 100 and give it deep thought before ever again linking to anything from the leaders of fake news.
    Thank You!
    Davers6

  37. I can imagine an elderly retired (Canadian) couple who are returning from Bismark, ND and headed for Winnipeg. They cross at Emerson, are detained and have to answer a horde of questions over a bottle of Jack Daniels that sat in the tool box of the F-150.
    They get home that night, turn the TV on, only to witness RCMP officers acting as bell hops and carrying the Samsonite luggage for illegal Syrian immigrants who just walk across the Can-Am border as if they own the place.
    Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
    Yup! Just imagine!! US Customs officers being so rude as to question a foreigner.

  38. If your job is to detain and process all illegals entering the country, will it be easier if you assist them and hustle them off to processing facilities without incident, or should you harass them, try to turn them back, and make them run-away and hide?

  39. It’s nice to see that the Post has access to old photos. I’d expected it to be in sepia though.

  40. I have never had an issue leaving Canada and going to a foreign country. It’s on coming home that I have always been treated like a criminal

  41. Nothing new here. It’s been going on for years – border services pretending we’re the problem while ignoring what’s coming in from the south. I’ve quit doing trade shows in the US largely because of birder bullshit. And we’ve stroked US destinations off our vacation list.
    But, I’ve had the same kind of rude encounters with CBS when coming back to my own country.

  43. Poor little snowflake. Who has traveled a lot and hasn’t ever been delayed and questioned by border agents? I guess she’ll show America by keeping her ten little toes back home!

  44. But she vigorously opposes profiling which would have avoided the whole thing. Screw these libtards. Search them harder.

  45. as I write from Florida, I am surprised at those who have problems visiting the U.S. we use the EDL, enhanced drivers licence.no passport. we also travel to the same place annually. this trip the young customs agent scanned our cards asked us where we lived, and where we were going, and said have a good trip. it has been like this since the province did the EDL thing.

  46. Ironic, because Australia is renown for having some of the strictes border security in the free world. There’s even a TV show about it.

  47. Ironic, because Australia is renown for having some of the strictes border security in the free world. There’s even a TV show about it.

  48. Ahhh, been there, done that, got the t-shirt. I’ve lived and worked on both sides of the border. Have had good and bad experiences from both sides. Border crossing stories are like fishing stories; everybody has one and it gets better with time.
    Mine was coming back from a camping trip in Montana. Had to return earlier than expected so when the nice Canadian lady at the border asked about fruit and vegetables, I innocently mentioned I thought I had an orange that I had bought in Lethbridge still in the fridge of my tent-trailer. Yep, you guessed it,had to pop the trailer up and find the offending item. Actually, that trip was a two-fer as I had my kids but mom was back in Calgary working. A phone call cleared me from being a kidnapper.
    I have found though, that a lot of folks bring it on themselves. All you have to do is watch those “reality” TV shows about borders to see how stupid some folks are.

  49. John Galt does have a point; better to snag the illegals right at the border and get them to a processing facility. The trouble is, our damnable Charter immediately applies to them, so they can’t be KEPT there indefinitely. They have to be released on promise to appear at a hearing, and they must be granted a hearing when they make their (bogus) asylum claim.
    The loophole in the Safe Country system should be closed forthwith; an entrant from the United States, legal or illegal, should be barred from making an asylum claim. If they do so, they should be immediately returned to the US to make their claim there.
    Fat chance of that happening while Libs are in power, of course. Seeing illegals come in from the States must make their progressive hearts swell with progressive lovey-dovey feelings and that oh-so-comfortable smug moral superiority vis-a-vis the United States that Liberals do so enjoy cultivating.

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