This Canadian school district right on the border with a lot of immigrant children (totally legal immigrants) is halting all field trips to the US.
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Not to GO to Canada. To WORK in Canada. Even if no money is changing hands on the Canadian side of the border.
(Including short term temporary work like grooming.)
Anyway, google it, apply for the proper documents if needed.
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Vet warned today that Pergolide, Previcox and Regumate may double in price if the promised new tariffs on pharmaceuticals apply to animal drugs. They are all made overseas so prices will increase no matter what but apparently some new thing was announced this morning. Ugh.
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It all sounds too unbelievable to be true, but it is exactly what is happening now.
Another incident I just heard of, a UK citizen, but a longtime rsident of the US, married to an American, a homeowner in the US, with a green card, who travels frequently to the UK on business, was in the UK for a short visit recently. On her return, she had her phone seized, was questioned extensively, and the legitimacy of her green card was questioned. She was held there for a number of hours, and luckily it got sorted out. She is white, educated, affluent,
And those BC highschool students, most likely they are Canadian citizens not immigrants themselves but, the children of immigrants. And non-white. 
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A lot of EU countries have pretty significant travel warnings for the US. It’s risky to enter this country right now, even for recreational travel. The US is on a red warning for genocide and a bunch of other Not Good international lists.
I’m wondering about the impact on the Olympics. It wouldn’t surprise me if they get boycotted in some form. Not to mention the fact that most athletes are professionals, and all the support that comes along with it. You’d think, as a layperson, that proof of competing in the Olympics or supporting an athlete would be enough to get you through easily… but these days, it’s all questionable.
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The Vancouver area had a significant population of Sikhs (and Chinese) from the start, and then immigration opened up a lot starting in the 1970s. So it’s true that, absent any other data, you can’t tell a child’s immigration status. Their family might have been here since 1900, they might be born Canadian citizens with permanent residency parents working towards citizenship, or they might have been born abroad and come here as small children.
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I’m quite concerned about this. I use a large box of Prascend a month. It went up nearly $50.00 this month alone.
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With the tariffs and also the rising uncertainty about the safey of US travel for foreigners, I also wonder how this will impact the Olympics.
Hopefully things will be better by then.
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If I was the USOC I would be going, “Pssst, hey France, don’t disassemble those Paris Olympic facilities just yet.”
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I mean, if the US does something particularly egregious between now and the Olympics, maybe whole countries will boycott in protest, not just individual athletes.
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Unfortunately, they’re already long gone - Versailles is a world heritage site and they were only ever meant to be temporary.
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There are stories even worse. One woman was in detention for three weeks because of a minor technical issue that could have been resolved in an hour. It was a horror story.
My husband travels to Canada to hunt. He has had issues at the border a few times. He crosses in a rural area in northern Idaho. He has run into some nasty border personnel who enjoyed detaining him or harassing him for no reason. Maybe boredom? My fear is these people will be more emboldened, making border crossing much riskier. He and his friends are worried about this year’s trip.
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Maybe this is the year to consider staying home😳.
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When I read stories like this or the worse ones we’ve seen in the press lately, I always think of this.
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Does that involve bringing guns across the border to hunt in Canada? I would imagine that is not a simple procedure.
At worst he might be sent home. At least he won’t be thrown into detention for weeks like the Canadian woman who had to leave the US to renew her work visa and ended up in multiple prisons/jails before she was released to come home.
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You do not bring guns across the border into Canada. Just not allowed.
Wow, here’s the story of the Canadian woman who was detained:
It’s bizarre and shocking that they didn’t just let her go back to her home country immediately and book a flight, as she wished to do so.
Although some of the people she was detained with had overstayed their visas (not that this excuses how they were treated), in this instance, a Welsh woman was put in chains because she had helped around the houses of the people where she stayed, which was said to be considered “employment.” (I’m putting this case, given in the horse industry, there are so many bartering agreements where money doesn’t technically change hands, so this maybe relevant).
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Thank you for the links. After the last week at work I’m too mentally exhausted to search for the supporting information.
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Yes, you can bring hunting guns across the border into Canada. He and his friends have been doing it for years. His friends have developed close relationships with farmers in Saskatchewan who invite them every year to hunt in their harvested fields. (It helps that my husband’s friends own a fishing boat and bring halibut and salmon as gifts for the farmers.) Last year, one of the families invited them to their Thanksgiving dinner.
The guns are usually not an issue at the crossing. My husband has all the paperwork in order. Right now, bird flu is the bigger problem. This fall’s trip may not happen.
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