Northern Frontier Dept: In a David-and-Goliath standoff, Mr. Rainville and his family are resisting demands to hand over 4.9 acres of their farmland to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, arguing that it’s crucial to the operation of their third-generation family farm. Their protest has reverberated all the way to Washington, underscoring the tensions between post-9/11 security and preserving a traditional way of life and yet it’s here, on a rustling meadow seeded with clover and alfalfa just steps from the border with Quebec, that the Department of Homeland Security envisions a modern new border station to bolster security on its northern frontier. That is, unless dairy farmer Clement Rainville gets his way. “ They say they want to reinforce the border here. But we’re not at war. ” — Clement Rainville As
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