The two long borders that the United States shares with its neighbors, both north and south, sometimes take forms that would surprise us. For example, in one place in the Swanton Sector in Vermont, the border consists of the lawn of a library/opera house.
According to Swanton CBP Chief Robert Garcia, on July 4 this somewhat unusual state of affairs encouraged a group to illegally enter the town of Derby Line, Vermont, from Stanstead, Quebec, by simply driving across the lawn of the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which sits astride the border. Video of the attempted incursion can be see on Garcia’s Twitter feed.
The illegal SUV crossed the lawn at a high rate of speed and nearly struck another when re-entering the roadway. Border Patrol agents in Derby Line gave chase and stopped the vehicle on Interstate 91. Inside, they found seven foreign nationals, from Canada, France, and Romania. None had U.S. documentation, and all were returned to Canada.
According to its website, the Library and Opera House was deliberately built astride the border to serve citizens of both countries.
Nowhere else in the world [the website reads] can one sit in an opera house that is literally split in two by an international border, where most of the audience sits in the U.S. to watch a show on a stage in Canada. Nowhere else can one find such an unusual library. The front door is in the U.S., the circulation desk and all of the books are in Canada, and the reading room is international.
This was not the first time such an illegal maneuver has been attempted. In 2018, two vehicles containing 11 illegals–four from France and seven from Romania–tried driving down the sidewalk at the same location. They too were arrested and returned.
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