Canada's serious about border control since 9/11....
http://www.local6.com/news/10740213/detail.html
Monday, January 22, 2007
French-Belgian Border
Although there is no stops required at this border subtle hints of a crossing are still seen. The Yellow lights are French while the clear are Belgian.
How much do you need for a border?
Ukraine-Poland borderhttp://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/chris.tan/Gallery/2002/Bieszczardy/1447-34.JPG
Ukraine is on the left (yellow and blue)
http://www.ji-magazine.lviv.ua/HBSconf-may2001/foto/kordon.jpg
Thought this fit in with our conversation today about the desire to bring in educated and highly-qualified immigrants...
Mon, January 22, 2007
Lengthy wait 'unfair'
Province asks feds to clear books on immigration backlog
By TOM GODFREY, SUN MEDIA
TORONTO -- The federal government is being asked to increase from 250,000 to 350,000 the number of immigrants being accepted in Canada this year to help clear a lengthy backlog.
The province has joined immigration lawyers in seeking more newcomers to clear a backlog of 800,000 cases, many who are parents who've been waiting for years to reunite with their families in Canada.
"It is unfair to have 800,000 people waiting in line for so long," said Ontario Citizenship and Immigration Minister Mike Colle. "It is frustrating for these people and they're going elsewhere."
He said the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are competing for the educated and highly-qualified immigrants.
"There is global competition for these highly-skilled immigrants," Colle said. "People will choose to go elsewhere where they can be processed faster."
He said Ontario accepts about 140,000 newcomers yearly, or about 60% of all new immigrants.
"We would like to do our part to handle more immigrants as long as there's federal funding," Colle said. "We have a flat population growth and our workforce is getting older."
He called for a five-year plan by the federal Conservatives to clear the backlog.
"Canada is an extremely popular place and many people want to come here," Colle said. "We have to get rid of the backlog and clear the books."
Philip Mailhod, a spokesman for recently appointed federal Immigration Minister Diane Finley, said he couldn't comment on the issue.
Toronto immigration lawyer Mendel Green said there are millions of dollars in an immigration account from applicants who have paid $1,100 each to sponsor their parents and have been waiting for years.
"There is a huge backlog in the system," he said last week. "About 25% of our clients had their cases started more than four years ago."
He said about 40,000 parents are sponsored to Canada yearly, leaving 300,000 others waiting abroad for processing.
Lengthy wait 'unfair'
Province asks feds to clear books on immigration backlog
By TOM GODFREY, SUN MEDIA
TORONTO -- The federal government is being asked to increase from 250,000 to 350,000 the number of immigrants being accepted in Canada this year to help clear a lengthy backlog.
The province has joined immigration lawyers in seeking more newcomers to clear a backlog of 800,000 cases, many who are parents who've been waiting for years to reunite with their families in Canada.
"It is unfair to have 800,000 people waiting in line for so long," said Ontario Citizenship and Immigration Minister Mike Colle. "It is frustrating for these people and they're going elsewhere."
He said the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are competing for the educated and highly-qualified immigrants.
"There is global competition for these highly-skilled immigrants," Colle said. "People will choose to go elsewhere where they can be processed faster."
He said Ontario accepts about 140,000 newcomers yearly, or about 60% of all new immigrants.
"We would like to do our part to handle more immigrants as long as there's federal funding," Colle said. "We have a flat population growth and our workforce is getting older."
He called for a five-year plan by the federal Conservatives to clear the backlog.
"Canada is an extremely popular place and many people want to come here," Colle said. "We have to get rid of the backlog and clear the books."
Philip Mailhod, a spokesman for recently appointed federal Immigration Minister Diane Finley, said he couldn't comment on the issue.
Toronto immigration lawyer Mendel Green said there are millions of dollars in an immigration account from applicants who have paid $1,100 each to sponsor their parents and have been waiting for years.
"There is a huge backlog in the system," he said last week. "About 25% of our clients had their cases started more than four years ago."
He said about 40,000 parents are sponsored to Canada yearly, leaving 300,000 others waiting abroad for processing.
Border between N. Korea and S. Korea
A study on the many types of borders found between South Korea and North Korea.
Tijuana Border Crossing Photographs
I found this site of Tijuana Border Crossing Images from a link featured on picture from google image. (The actual picture I found from google image is featured on this webpage)
http://www.ontheroadin.com/baja/crossingborder.htm
http://www.ontheroadin.com/baja/crossingborder.htm
Mending Wall - Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
The Extreme Sport of Border Crossing
In Ixmiquilpan, Mexico a group of community members provide a unusual service to tourists. For a fee they will provide a mock illegal border crossing to anyone that might like to experience the "sport" of illegal border crossing. The organizers of this event say, " they are trying to build empathy for migrants by putting people in thier shoes". Check this one out!
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/001965.php
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/001965.php
Illegal Toilets!
As I was searching for illegal boarder crossings I came across this articale on the smuggling of illegal toilets into the US. Black Market toilets? Never heard that one before! Enjoy!
Psst! Wanna Buy An Illegal Toilet? -- Monday, Apr. 03, 2000 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Psst! Wanna Buy An Illegal Toilet? -- Monday, Apr. 03, 2000 -- Page 1 -- TIME
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