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IT’S not true that immigration officials never enforce the laws of the United States. The late Gord Sinclair, the colossus of English-language radio in the province of Quebec, used to have a country place about an hour-and-a-half southeast of Montreal just across the Vermont border, and occasionally he’d invite some of his staff at CJAD down for the weekend. So one Friday afternoon a few years ago, one of Gord’s junior reporters pulled up at the Richford crossing and was asked the usual questions: Where do you live? Where are you going? And, upon hearing that the guy was going to stay at his boss’s pad, the border guard asked him what he’d be doing when he got there. And he answered affably, “Oh, knowing my boss, he’ll probably have me chopping wood and peeling potatoes all weekend.”

Whereupon U.S. Immigration refused him entry to the United States on the grounds that he had no work authorization.

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

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IT’S not true that immigration officials never enforce the laws of the United States. The late Gord Sinclair, the colossus of English-language radio in the province of Quebec, used to have a country place about an hour-and-a-half southeast of Montreal just across the Vermont border, and occasionally he’d invite some of his staff at CJAD down for the weekend. So one Friday afternoon a few years ago, one of Gord’s junior reporters pulled up at the Richford crossing and was asked the usual questions: Where do you live? Where are you going? And, upon hearing that the guy was going to stay at his boss’s pad, the border guard asked him what he’d be doing when he got there. And he answered affably, “Oh, knowing my boss, he’ll probably have me chopping wood and peeling potatoes all weekend.”

Whereupon U.S. Immigration refused him entry to the United States on the grounds that he had no work authorization.