Friends of ours tried to go to the US to visit a monastery for the weekend. They legally immigrated from Belarus and are now Canadian citizens. Both have good jobs, their own home and roots here. Kids are in university.

The woman’s mother was with them. She just got Permanent Residence status but not citizenship (hasn’t been here long enough and doesn’t speak English and too old to bother learning). She’s in her 70’s and came here to spend her last days with her daughter, good health and her expenses and medical care covered by the family (and insurance). So, not a drain on the system and no cost to taxpayers.

They get stopped at the US border. Won’t let mom in without a visa. OK, too bad, end of trip. When they wanted to turn around and go back - not so fast!! Mom is fingerprinted and has to pay a monetary penalty for trying to illegally enter the US. Of course, good luck getting a visa now.

Now, ignorance of the law is no excuse, but I can’t help but wonder why they had to go so far instead of just turning the car around and sending them home with a warning.

I also can’t help thinking that the only word of English the old woman had to utter was “Refugee” and y’all would have been paying her to stay!!!

The title of your thread is USBP, which leads me to believe you're little rant is about the U.S. Border Patrol?

My understanding is the guys/gals at the ports of entry are in blue uniforms, and members of the Office of Field Operations (legacy U.S. Customs) and your friends unfortunate encounter has nothing to do with the USBP.

You're whining because the law was enforced?

Let me guess, they voted for Trump.

Not USBP related....but sometimes NO one knows.


I called the border on our side and asked them if I needed a passport.

They said no....that was a Canadian requirement.


So, I called the Canadian border and asked them if I needed a passport.

They said no.....that was an American requirement.


So off I went. Nary a problem.

With the unfucking limited number of alphabet agencies that are armed and in charge of somefucking thing you’ll have to cool your indignation at being “technically” correct.

She should have told them she was a wetback and wanted to work picking celery................In like flynn!

No indignation here to cool from. Just pointing something out.

Foreigners bemoaning their perceived entitlement to come into the U.S. doesn't get a whole lot of sympathy from me honestly. Your milage may vary.

Fwiw I've had some bad experiences on the U.S. side of the ports myself, so I do understand some bitching.

What happened?
Did you catch Seattle disease?
Is your partner logging in on your name?
Twice in 1 week you are a 180 from what I remember a short time ago.
Weird.

Prayers sent.

Next time try the southern border. And wetbacks don't use border crossings, they swim or wade. It's how they get wet backs.

Quick question......are you OK with Canada charging hunters to bring their firearms into Canada for a hunt?

Damn right and would've gave her food stamp card just like that.

Sorry border patrol agent slave, I didn’t mean to upset you by responding to your friend in a way unsuitable to your liking and by not being my usual polite self. My bullshit level gets topped out sometimes.

Have a nice day. 🙂

FWIW....,The US side....ie getting into the USA....,are mostly cock suckers with a short man complex. Half aren’t even white and the other half aren’t even men.

Canadians are friendly and polite without the attitude.

ETA....I don’t give afuck if it’s USCB&P or USBP or whatever thefuck the cock suckers call themselves they sure thefuck aren’t controlling our borders from invasion but are stopping tourists one old lady at a time.

Have a nice day slave, sleep tight tiger.

You do realize they have nowhere to house all these illegals once they catch them. That's why they are turning them loose.. Now having crossed into Canaduh on a few occasions, one is better served saying you don't own weapons... and telling them you like French fries and brown gravy..

Attitude is everything at the border. I'd be willing to bet some folks got mouthy and pushy resulting in the official write up and fine. But then again, I could be wrong, Eastern Europeans so often come across as considerate, thankful folks, you hardly ever see them get obnoxious and act as if the rules do not apply to them.

More BS.

I've lost hundreds of hours through the years to USBP. I'm fine with it they are doing their jobs. One time I saw a guy trying to cross in with a photocopied Yemeni passport with a photocopied 1 day old Canadian work visa with an 8 axle semi truck hauling medical waste. In other words come to the border with the proper f-ing paperwork or get your ass turned around and sent home. I venture to say not many have crossed the US Canadian border as I have. i used to do it every day. Sure I've ran into dickheads with a power trip but the worst I've ever dealt with is when the CBP is having a labor dispute. They decide to turn up the a-hole level to 11 to Americans when that happens. Why would u want to come to the US anyway cause Canada is so awesome according to Canadians?

Dealing with them is a pain as most do either have short man's complex or a bull dyke complex.

I travel out of the country at least three times a month with my job and get to deal with them all the time, the U.S. agents are worse than any other place on the planet. I guess they're trying to compensate for the southern open border policy by harassing middle age white guys whose families have been in America since before it was the United States of America.

Sometimes I think I should address them with "No hablo ingles" but then they'd probably speak to me in spanish and I'd be screwed since that's about the only spanish I know. I'm pretty sure speaking spanish nowadays gets you an automatic entry into the U.S., a driver's license, voter's registration card, and EBT card at the same time.

Buncha ass holes.

Also, a citizen of Canaduh doesn’t need a visa. A citizen of Pollockville does.

It’s pretty simple.

And I LOVE the monastery bit. I’m sure they never heard that one before.

^^^Bipolar disorder.^^^

If it were that easy for a Pollock to become a permanent resident in the US she'd have already done so.

You should have wrapped a towel around her head and put a bedsheet on her. They would have waved her through without an ID check for fear of offending her.

Yeah that's how it works.

Yes. Like I said earlier when I was headed north to see that other monastery.

12344mag nailed it. You guys have far greater threats to your border than an old woman from Belarus, with proper documentation to live in Canada, travelling to a monastery with her family. Sorry, wasn’t a monastery, it was a convent: http://novo-diveevo.org/

Now let’s hear more trash from all you “Christian conservatives” about it not being the right kind of Christianity for you. My Orthodox wife happens to think that any Christian denomination that came after is a cult.

Customs and BP has always been cool to me. Especially one time (before 9-11)

I went to the bahamas, left my wallet in my rental car at the parking garage.

I got back through customs with only my picture ID from The Fairways of Palm Aire, Pompano Beach golf resort.



Hahaha

You obviously have no knowledge of your own immigration laws.

And you sure as fugk don't know anything about hours.

What did your Pollock friends do in Belarus? How did they get to Canada?

I only ever met one border patrol agent and he was stupider than Glockdoofus...

Hahahaha!

Good to see everyone so cheerful on this fine Monday.

+1

This is how conversations with eastern europeans usually go in most parts of the country.

"What did you do in Buttfugkistan?"

"I own tire shop."

"Oh. Does your wife work?"

"Yes. She nurse."

"Oh. How about all six of those adult aged children that live in your $400,000.00 home and all drive Mercedez?"

"They going to start business."

"Oh. How long have you lived here?"

"Six month."


Yeah. That all makes perfect sense. Nothing curious about any of that schit.

He's gone bi something, alright.
Maybe we could send the buttfùckastainians and grandma to live with him.

Deflave, living in South Florida you must obviously be retired from the mob. Can’t be any other explanation, because all you people are like that.

Dumbfuq.

I cross the Canadian border on occasion and live in an area with a large Eastern European community.

1. The Americans are usually dicks crossing back in. It’s kinda amusing.

2, Russian/Ukrainian immigrants are shady as fugg but run a few good delis.

If you ever visit check out Golden Beach. Ask lots of questions. Tell me what common denominator you find.

lmao

Liverwurst and $600,000 loans with 30% interest each week?

Seems legit...

"What's that you say? You took a jet ski to the Bahamas and back with nothing but a backpack? What were you doing exactly?"

"I go to monastery."

Since I have restrictions that won’t let me get within 100 miles of any border, I can’t speak from personal experience like everyone else here, but it seems to me that the person in the blockhouse at the border sending everyone back to Canada is like a janitor or something and a border patrol agent is someone else that eats jelly donuts in a white Suburban...

No. They had to change that policy recently.


NO! Jelly filled pastries.

NO! exceptions.

Thats gotta be it. I knew i smelled a rat.

Happy Monday!

I've never met him but you're right.

This place is always a trip.

The youth of America get to see this kind of behavior on the part of "Conservative Christian Americans" on a daily basis, then they go vote for people like Buttigieg, and the hill-jacks are like "huh, YOU'RE A NIG-AH LOVING TRAITOR."

Bipolar would be a kind diagnosis.He has portrayed a career that includes LE as a commissioned officer, Paramedic/firefighter and some job in an ER. He has also stated that he is a marijuana user but works in a location that does not drug test. He rarely misses an opportunity to denigrate all segments of LE and has more than once suggested that they be murdered. If anyone cared enough to review his posting history it is all there.


mike r

The few Border Patrol people I've met were quality people. And, oddly, frequently told me I had treated them nicer than anyone else they'd met.

And don’t forget his son is an MP.

Which makes even more sense.

Couple yrs back he had a meltdown about Mormons.. it was pretty epic...

I'm going to have to call HQSLC and report you..