When I lived in Port Angeles, Washington, one of the headaches of life was the self-importance of what are now called Immigration and Customs officials.
Having nabbed a would-be terrorist in 2000, they took the view that anybody coming in or out on the sole ferry from Washington to British Columbia must be a terrorist. They set up roadblocks 70 miles away on the way to Forks to ask where people were driving, why and what their immigration status was. Hello, Arizona!
The last few times I drove to Canada under the tightened Bush rules- they were building walls between neighbors at the border and condemning the land to do it (where were the Teabaggers then?) it took a few minutes to cross into Canada and an hour or more to wait your turn to be insulted and harassed before you could cross back into the US to go home.
Disaster for tourism was predicted. And it came to pass. Thanks, Dubya, for alienating our best ally and next door neighbor just to make sure those crafty Mexicans don't find a new way in. Pity you couldn't stop the heroin trade out of Vancouver.
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