Open Border Dept: And try they do, here on Silver Lake Road and further east, where five men were arrested last month, turning a spotlight on B.C.'s open border with Washington and the well-worn trails that smugglers use, according to The Globe and Mail. To reach the other side, smugglers have to dodge high-tech motion sensors, cameras on tall metal sticks with even taller antennae, helicopter surveillance and border-patrol officers who sit in SUVs hidden behind farm sheds and in the trees, just waiting to pounce and a narrow strip of grass about 225 metres wide weaves between patches of farmland and evergreen forests, 15 kilometres east of the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Huntingdon, B.C., and Sumas, Wash. A few tired fences keep the cows from wandering too far from home, but nothing really blocks people who want to try their luck at crossing the line. But the ease of access is an illusion. As
reported in the news.
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