Canadian Border Tightens Due to Info Sharing

blu3 b0y writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that new information sharing agreements have made it as easy for a Canadian border officer to know the full criminal records of US citizens as it is for their local police. As a result, Canadian officials are turning away American visitors for ancient minor convictions, including 30-year-old shoplifting and minor drug possession convictions. Officials claim it's always been illegal to enter Canada with such convictions without getting special dispensation, they just had no good way of knowing about them until recent security agreements allowed access. One attorney speculates it's not long before this information will be shared with other countries as well, causing immigration hassles worldwide."

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So...

[yogurtforthesoul]

I guess the border patrol will switch over to the string tied sweatpants.

Re:WOW

[abscissa]

Or president, if, like Bush, you were born with a silver spoon.. in your nose.

Look at the bright side

[Anonymous Coward]

So that means that Bush won't be traveling to Canada any time soon, due to his DUI conviction?

Re:Funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, blame Canada.

Re:Look at the bright side

[MarkRose]

British Columbia's Premier, Gordon Campbell, got a DUI while in Hawaii [cbc.ca]. Bush would fit right in.

Re:Funny

[slughead]

Other countries can turn our people away, but we can't seem to turn other counties people away.

That's because WE'RE NUMBER 1! WOOO GO USA!

GET A BRAIN, MORANS! [sic.]

Well now...

[carvalhao]

... as someone who was recently refused a visitors' visa to the USA because I've worked 1 month in Saudi Arabia as a CRM consultant, I can't help a grin followed by an "oh bummer!"

I guess that the "keep our country to the locals" isn't so nice when you're on the other side of the border, isn't it?

Please mod me flamebait, but I really couldn't help it :D

Re:Welcome to Canada!

[beavis88]

Border. It's a fucking "border". And I here I was thinking Americans had a monopoly on bad schools.

Welcome to the North American Union

[gd23ka]

where sentences and conviction travel at lightspeed while the indentured
populations stay on the plantation?

"Boy why would you want to go up north anyway? Who would be to keep you
and feed you?"

We were warned.

[dubyadee]

Remember being warned in school that our offenses would be put on our "permanent record"? Well, see!? It was true. No all you naughty children will pay the price! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Re:Well now...

[Anonymous Coward]

He might have contracted Arab while he was there.

Re:Funny

[Fozzyuw]

That is not true. The Green Card is exceptionally hard to acquire even for UK citizens...

His joke wasn't about it being easy to 'legally' live in the us as a foreign national. The irony is that it's easier to live in the U.S. illegally than trying to do it legally. Something I joke about with my foreign fiancee, that if we have too, we'll just honeymoon in Mexico and I'll sneak her back in. =P

Cheers,
Fozzy

That's a great idea.

[Beardo the Bearded]

I'll buy the booze and rent them a car.

Does anyone know where you can rent a Pinto or Propane truck?

Minor ancient incidents?

[Tablizer]

I knew I should have returned that library book in 1977.