[Strangelet]

interesting read on a canadian barred from entering the US even though he had two kids, a house, and a job in Utah. Oh yeah. not to mention a work permit and 13 years experience.

fascism is here, folks.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...erblocked.html

"Is there a war going on [at] the border that we don't know about?" Kevin Gibbons asks. "Why are Canadians getting hassled so much right now?"
Gibbons is devastated because, he said, for the first time in his life, he's looking for a job and a new home — thanks to the discretion of U.S. border guards.
"I still can't believe that this can happen. They can take your life and trash it," said Gibbons.

Gibbons said he was allowed to travel back to Utah, temporarily, to sell his home — at a huge loss — and collect the family belongings. Since coming back to Canada, he's tried to cross again, unsuccessfully, at other ports of entry — because his U.S. employer still wants him back. Gibbons said, each time, he was made to feel more and more like a criminal.

"They (Customs and Border Protection) then accused me of border shopping and said they were going to put me in jail over the weekend up in front of an immigration judge," said Gibbons.
That threat was enough to scare the Gibbons family away from the border permanently.
"It feels like we must have done something really horrible, the way they treat you," said Gibbon's wife Heather.