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They actually have fewer regulations and can usually cross the boarder very easily. It's one of the reasons that the area is extremely popular for smuggling.
by koheripbal 6y ago
They actually have fewer regulations and can usually cross the boarder very easily.
It's one of the reasons that the area is extremely popular for smuggling.
- ilamont 6y agoVince Thompson is one of about 2,000 Mohawks who lives there. He's also represents the Island as a chief on the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. Just to take his daughter to a dentist appointment and go to some meetings, he says, he has to go back and forth through U.S. and Canadian customs, waiting in line and answering intrusive questions each time. "I’m going home. I gotta report in. Then I gotta race back home, pick up my daughter, then report back in, then proceed to the dental or medical appointments," Thompson shakes his head. "It’s unbelievable." https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/36230/20180517/mohawks-encouraged-to-know-your-rights-with-border-agents https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/36230/201...
- koheripbal 6y agoWhile I'm sure that's true - it is still a very popular smuggling area exactly because the border patrol is very thin.
- frenchy 6y agoWould it be better just to solve that by putting up stops on both sides of the reserve's border?
- caf 6y agoSo it seems like the worst outcome has been achieved then - overbearing bureaucracy for locals engaged in their legitimate business, and a relatively free hand for smugglers moving things across the border illegitimately?
- Turing_Machine 6y agoRight. I believe that is the place where the American side was (on paper) consuming hundreds or thousands of times the normal rate of Canadian cigarettes. What was happening was that the cigarettes were being sold as export items (so little/no Canadian tax paid), exported to the American side, then smuggled back into Canada via the Canadian side.