EDIT: Consensus has been achieved, original post below. General consensus is that people haven’t had issues with US customs, as long as all the paperwork is in order.

Thanks to everyone who commented, I greatly appreciate your input!

Hey everyone!

For those that have crossed the US / Canadian border recently: what was your experience when going through US customs? Were you harassed / detained? Any tips to prepare for crossing?

My SO and I were talking earlier about having some family come up from the US to Canada to visit us. I suggested maybe they should wait a bit due to the apparent unhinged behaviour of US Customs; However, while my SO doesn’t deny the stories, she believes they might be rare cases & blown out of proportion by the media. She found out that the Vancouver woman that was detained for ~2 weeks also had improper paperwork - which is often left out by the media. While the detainment duration is still totally unjustified, the initial detainment was caused by the improper paperwork.

So I’m reaching out to those that actually cross the border to see what’s actually going on; as the media can be fanatical sometimes.

Thanks in advance!

  • Tramort@programming.dev
    11·
    1 day ago

    They are rare, but a handful of people being denied due process and held in a cold detention cell for WEEKS is an excellent reason to not take any chances.

    Normal people refusing to cross the border is an important consequence of authoritarianism.

    Having said that, what is motivating? Your partner probably has nothing to do with geopolitics, and everything to do with wanting to see her family. It probably isn’t useful to discuss the facts of our current political environment when they aren’t really what are motivating her.