Jim B
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Of course, you could try swimming across one of the Great Lakes, or walking thru the Rocky Mountains, but as soon as you got caught in Canada, you would be spending some time in one of our jails, then being tossed back into the USA, to be interviewed by the US law enforcement officials, to find out what you have been running from ?
My advice, stay in the USA.
Jim b. Toronto,. |
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Of course there's no legal way...
But it certainly is possible to cross the border without actually going through immigration.
Canada and the U.S. share the longest undefended border in the world. There are literally thousands of kilometres of border where you could just step across. (Sometimes there's a marker, indicating that it's the Canada/U.S. border. Mostly not, though.)
Roads have established border crossings. Fields, meadows, and forests...not so much.
I remember an episode of the 'The Daily Show' where they made fun of the U.S. Immigration Service for disallowing Vancouver professor, Andrew Feldmar, entry to the United States because, in his research, he admitted to having used LSD in the 60's or 70's. For comedic purposes, the show had Feldmar meet-up with his son, a U.S. resident, at "the border" which was really just a field, with a small sign indicating the location of the U.S./Canada border. Father and son exchanged words, then walked away, neither one actually crossing "the border". It was pretty funny, since there really was nothing stopping either one from doing so.
And that's the point of this question, I gather. Is it possible? Of course, probably more so in Canada than just about any other nation, since aside from the U.S./Canada border, there are millions of kilometres of (virtually) undefended coastline, too.
To suggest it's not possible to enter Canada without going through immigration is naive, at best.
Should someone enter Canada illegally? Of course not. (Get a grip.)
I live in a beach house on Lake Ontario. Everyday...even right now, as I type...I'm looking across the lake at the U.S. (basically Buffalo, NY). Sure, it's far. But not so far as to be impossible by boat. (We take our boat out all the time, and it would be easy-peasy to just boat across to the U.S. and pull ashore somewhere. The Coast Guard might notice us. They might not. If they don't, we'd be in the U.S. without having gone through immigration. Happens all the time, apparently.)
I'm sure it's not terribly uncommon for boats to leave Buffalo (or anywhere on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes) and come to Canada without being stopped by the coast guard. You're supposed to check-in at a marina, should you do something like that. (No different than sailing to the Caribbean. You don't just walk off your boat and head to a restaurant. You have to check-in with immigration first.) It's just that this kind of entry is so inconsequential, when compared with the millions who travel via traditional modes of travel. Obviously, authorities have to concentrate on those first, and things like private boats, private planes, and foot traffic are more difficult to control.
A good friend has a farm north of the city. Her neighbour has a landing strip for his private planes. While air traffic control might pick-up a plane on its journey into Canada, would they bother tracking it to this private air strip...and then send immigration personnel to investigate? Probably not. Being a small plane, they might not even see it enter Canadian air space. Who knows?
Of course there's no legal way to enter any country without going through some form of immigration control. But people enter countries illegally all the time, all around the world. Canada is no different. (...And I'm a bit baffled by the view that this can't, or doesn't, happen.) And not everyone entering illegally has malevolent intent, either. As I mentioned, you could simply be sailing the Great Lakes, and end up technically across the border. It doesn't mean you're smuggling something or plan to do anything wrong in Canada. |
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