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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: US-CBP Closes Border-Straddling Library Entrance to Canadidians
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:50:03 -0700
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On 3/27/25 10:41 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2025 at 7:41:12 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a follow-up to the story.
>>
>>> As of yesterday, the library has received over $150,000
>>> in donations to be used to add an entrance on the Canadian
>>> side of the building plus a parking area on the Canadian
>>> side.
>>
>>> Louise Penny, a Canadian author (of a mystery series I
>>> enjoy) who lives in a nearby region of Quebec, contributed
>>> $50,000 to the fund.
>>
>>> I hope that the Canadian patrons of the library can eventually
>>> enjoy the facility without any additional hassles from the
>>> customs and immigration folks, but I guess we'll see what
>>> happens.
>>
>>> Nyssa, who hopes for the best, but these days figures on the
>>> not-so-good happening instead
>>
>> What a complete waste of money, and I suppose this cuts off the economy
>> of the two neighboring towns in half.
> 
> I found another spot several miles east of that town where the border seems to
> cross through the front yard of someone's home on the American side and CBP
> seems to have come along and blocked off the road running next to their home
> and to prevent people from just driving around the road block, they also seem
> to have put a bunch of boulders across the yard of the homeowner.
> 
> https://ibb.co/4wdQr3jc
> 
> I wonder if that's considered a taking and if the government had to pay them
> to put a barricade through their property.

Good fences make good neighbors.  :)