DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) — Step through the front door of the Haskell Library and you’re in the United States.Walk across the carpeted floor to the circulation desk and you’re in Canada. But if you sit down on the couch, you’re back in the U.S.
The 106-year-old Romanesque building, which straddles the international border, has enjoyed a kind of informal immunity from border restrictions through the years.
But a U.S. Border Patrol crackdown focusing on three unguarded streets linking Derby Line with Stanstead, Quebec, across the border, could soon change that.
What illegal activity? Like trying to walk over the border line drawn on the library floor without showing your passport each time?
I was always suspicious of those overly-friendly Canadians! They can't have been up to anything good!
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Library cards, now available with passports.
A lot of small towns in northern VT and NH _used_ to be just as French as the ones over the border in Quebec. Who knows what sedition is being hatched by the Francophone grandparents up there?
OMG! They're planning to pay us back for all the asinine anti-French jokes the Bush administration encouraged! They're going to Frenchify us!! We must attack Canada before they hit us with irregular verbs!
Mwahahahaha. "Freedom fries", we'll show you.;)
Aaaarrrrghhh! Mon Dieu! You got moi! Aaaaaaaa!
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