A Road that You Can't Cross (Peace Arch & Point Roberts) 

That’s cuz Canada isn’t trying to cause problems

More Canadians move to the US than vice versa no need for a wall

The U.S. also has posted signs along the US-Canadian border. In Point Roberts there is a concrete barrier in Monument Park that has a sign posted saying that it is unlawful to cross into the United States there.

Same thing with Mexico. I think it was 9/11 that changed all that. You can still go to Canada without a passport if your state offers Enhanced IDs (e.g. Washington, Michigan, etc)

No body believed that we rode our bikes into Washington State from Abbotsford.

In 2008 I could go into the us from Mexico because they know who is American or not. Hundreds of drunk college kids crossing. It changed around that time requiring a passport.

@@necksquad3222 All states now offer enchanced IDs (Real IDs). The dates keep getting pushed back but in the next couple of years (I believe its 2024, was 2023 and they recently pushed it back) you will have to have a Real ID to fly, even domestically in the US.

@@aaronz9410 Enhanced ID and Real ID are two different things. An Enhanced ID (e.g. an EDL from Washington or Michigan) has an RFID chip with your citizenship info that CBP can read. An Enhanced ID can get you into Canada, a Real ID cannot.

I'm probably in the vast minority when I say this but really Americans and Canadians should be able to cross the border freely without having to check in with the border guards and show passports. I believe it's silly but I suppose every American fugitive and terrorist would probably end up in Canada and hide in the mountains or whatnot and use it as a base of operations?

@@dankelly5150 or vice versa!

@@dankelly5150i thought the same. I live in the Mexican side of the border and I always imagined the border with Canada was like it didn't even exist since the two countries have the same origins( descendents of the British Empire)

It's a bit misleading, but the border is about a meter away from the south edge of the road. The border is not in the center of the road

I’m not so sure the drawers of the border knew about Point Roberts. They agreed Victoria and all of Vancouver Island would be in Canada but there was the Pig War over the San Juan Islands

You weren’t there when they Drew the border 😂

@@tacoswelding8411 Why do you think they took Hawaii? It wasn't just because of Dole. Lol

@@sesetio338 he still wasn’t there, my original point 😆

@@tacoswelding8411 IK ROBERTs POINT! MWAHAHAHA

@@SeattleMartin meh it was funny

Unfortunately, they were latter apprehended and taken to a cement block house and forced to eat maple bars until they promised to obey the signs...it was horrific.

Exactly, and even if it wasn't life threatening at the time it was very inhumane to deny her entry and let her suffer.

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Then the two ladies give each other a hug . . .

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The US never stopped allowing Canadians to cross that road and enter the park.

Yes. And on that day, if I crossed into that park without my passport, I would not be able to getback to this side of the street without a trip to a small dark office in the Canadian immigration building.

@@PavlovsBob lol wut

@@beyounged can I sneak into us and never come back?

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it is still one of the much easier ones to cross illegitimately, but during pandemic, the patrol just to catch people not for illegally immigrating but for checking vaccination was comical.

You can thank that idiot Bush for that.

and oh, thanks for watching~! :)

Are you sure you can exit the peace arch park only the same side you entered? If this is enforced through cameras (which is quite difficult) then there would be no end to check passports at the exit of peace park!

Also thanks for this great video.

@@randym1788 do not underestimate the power of modern video surveillance. It is easy to have a computer to note a man with white shirt and red pants enters and leaves the premises, and if they do not match, an alarm is triggered.

There was still until Jan 22 2023 some hassle with crossing. And until Fall 2022 you had to have heavy reliance of your CELL PHONE and required internet access and a degree of tech savvy to enter Canada. Now it's better, no more disclosure of health information to foreign countries, No more being cut off from your myocarditis injured friends and family who were banned simply because their body was incompatible with mRNA! Jan 22 2023 is when the border truly became open again. We can visit and invite all family, be it vaxxed, unvaxxed, or vax injured.

hopefully by september it would be open as back in the good old days!

I like my videos like how I like my potstickers, well done :P

if it could happen, it would have happened a few decades ago. sadly people in those places will suffer for the foreseeable future.

America and their walls! Makes one laugh! Lol!!!

that is all I need to know! someone got something from my video!

thank you so much for watching! glad you loved it😊

they knew Victoria was south of 49th, but they kinda forgot this tiny little area haha. The line was meant to be drawn from naturally formed border from Minnesota, so it makes sense there

@beyounged ah, I also heard recently that point roberts may have had something to do with maintaining fishing rights in those waters. I actually live rather close to point roberts so hopefully next year I'll be able to go visit it

I think the same thing when I'm in the lineup at the US-Canada border and I see birds just flying freely back and forth.

​@@toborobo theres no borders where I live

​@@toborobo i live in Washington country when we drive in Washington country then boom we end up in neighboring country called Oregon country little more driving then boom we are in Idaho country😂😂then little more drive we are in Montana country if you do u-turn from Idaho you'll end up in Nevada country then in California country 😅

Thanks for watching!

Thank you for watching haha! It is so funny a chocolate egg is not legal in US!

@@beyounged In all fairness it's the toy inside the chocolate that has been problematic. I bet it would be fun to go up there and taunt people on the other side of the ditch with forbidden food. It that illegal? If not then I just figured out what I will be doing for my summer vacation.

Make sure you try and report back! From your hotel or the local county jail ahaha!

@@beyounged Dude, you will be the first to know.

You didn't need a passport to enter either country years ago

thank you so much for watching~! so glad you enjoyed it! I have quite a few more on the channel too :D

Well put.

They did start a ferry service to Blaine, WA after it was clear the closure would last a while.

There were 2 watching us right beside the cameraman as well 😉

thank you for watching! there are a ton more videos like this on the channel for you to enjoy too! :D

There’s a fine grass airstrip. What she’s not saying is she doesn’t want to pay U.S. rates for the care. wsdot.wa.gov/publications/manuals/fulltext/M3049/PointRoberts.pdf

It is indeed! sadly the people there really got screwed over by the Canadian government, hopefully this will all end very soon.

@@beyounged Not sure how you think the Canadian government screwed the people of Pt Roberts. The border was closed and they are surrounded by water. The Americans wouldn't have granted any other country any leniency. The US is very strong at their borders aside from what the right wing suggests.

shit, then I guess I will not visit it. Im going there from Toronto for a long weekend, and I was planning to visit the park, but I don't have a passport.

@@GeorgeGabor19 i live close to that park and see people have issues all the time. You can talk to the agent before you cross and he may allow without passport, but you have to check in with that some person coming back. If he is not there when you come back, you may have problems coming back.

@@GeorgeGabor19 You don't need a passport to spend the day at Peace Arch Park. All you need is proof of citizenship.

These people really news to get a life.

can you imagine your dog crossing into canada and you cannot cross the street to get it?

Living in Detroit, across the river from Canada, was murder during covid, dating-wise. All my tinder matches were always canadian girls lol

yeah... I am struggling with this as well. I love travel and telling stories, but seems like the two audience do not mix. what do you think I should focus on?

Canada yes, Mexico no.

@@elizabethwitt2621 Mexico, yes. Closing off our borders with Canada and Mexico creates more problems than it solves.

Glad you enjoyed it! :D

thanks for watching~! :D

From what I've read, yes, even if you do not have dual citizenship. The arch was built right on the border. I've never been there, so I assume you need to show your passport to enter the park, regardless of if you enter from BC or WA.

You can visit the peach arch without showing passport to enter the park thru Canada or US way … but in case you wanna cross border going thru blaine or seattle or go to point roberts or cross Canada then that’s the time you need a passport. Before they allow drivers license now its different

​@@rosemendez931 you're wrong, U.S residents and Canadian residents can be in a park because the park are neutral zone, but also there's Canadian neighborhood right across the park for U.S residents they can not enter the Canadian neighborhood while Canadians can enter the park and then go back to the neighborhood.

@@fasthighwaydriver59732 I forgot to say that you can visit the peach arch park but not the neighborhood area surrounding it …Unless you don’t cross the ditch and your in vehicle then your ok ……I go to this area often and i’ve seen border patrol roaming around the area

What is the name of park and where is places?pls

@@tuntunlwin9521 It is called Peace Arch park and it's in South Surrey British Columbia Canada

You don't need a passport to go into that park and return to Canada. Just proof of citizenship.

@@e-curb First few times I didn't need a passport just ID but now the RCMP demand Passport from everyone. There is a sign there as well

@@jeffreymvlogs Your ID isn't proof of citizenship. You don't need a passport, proof of citizenship is good enough for any official at the border.

but this is THE thing they love to do! They have done this on literally every single continent haha!

Then the border there is also very relaxed then! No huge fences and gun turrets I presume?

Before 9/11 it was even more relaxed and friendly. I didn't need a passport to cross, all I needed was a birth certificate or a drivers license and they never even asked to see it, they usually just asked your citizenship, where you were going and for how long. Now because of that idiot Bush I need a passport and I have to show it every time.

@@kenlompart9905 Yes, lately law enforcement agencies such as the US Border Patrol have been patrolling along the Rio Grande river very often. Because a lot of Haitians and Africans from African countries have migrated across the Rio Grande River. because some parts of the river are narrow And rarely see Mexicans and Latin Americans these days

There seem to be people Criss crossing all the time during the video!

Real ID can be a good solution, but with the US constantly pushing it back, there is no forseeable solution in the next few years.

There should be Szcengen Zone between Canada, U.S and Mexico without any border checkpoints. In Europe the European countries that joining the European Union they have a right after 10-15 years to apply to join for Szcengen Zone without border checkpoints. This 2023 year Croatia joined Szcengen Zone they waited for 15 years while all 28 countries in European Union refused to accept Romania and Bulgaria to join Szcengen Zone now governments of Romania and Bulgaria are very mad

There used to be a ferry going from a place called anacortes in WA to Point Roberts; Many businesses in Point Roberts complained during covid because the border was closed and they mainly rellied on Canadian customers. You are right, Point Roberts should have been considered part of Canada for quarantine purposes.

probably it is gonna be Canada's response, because the entire surface is in Canada, as the ditch is the border.

he laughed it off, and asked me for my channel! but it was very stressful when he was there as a small crowd had gathered ahaha!

More coming from this trip I am doing! Stay tuned! 😉

and get a very hefty fine from CBA, also that resident should get ready to lose his license.

Because it's not actually prohibited. Canadians and Americans can both enter Peach Arch Park from their respective sides.

It used to be easier to cross before 9/11. In the 80s and 90s we used to cross the border quite often to go to Buffalo just to go to the bars, beer was cheaper and they took Canadian money at par plus it was a change in scenery. I've been to almost every state on the east coast more than once and before 9/11 all you needed was a birth certificate or even a drivers license as proof you were Canadian but not once was I ever asked to show it. Before 9/11 they would just ask your citizenship, why you were entering the US, and how long you will be staying but after 9/11 that idiot Bush lied and said the terrorists entered through Canada which was easily proven not to be the case and thanks to him we now need a passport to cross the border and they're a lot stricter about it.

Same in the U.S we drive drive from Washington country then boom we end up in neighboring country called Oregon a little more driving then boom we are in Idaho country😂😂then little more drive we are in Montana country

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it was the one that made the police officer crack. glad you enjoyed!

We often are, but Canada can be a HARDASS authoritarian state. It's the government/police, not the normal citizens.

Canadians are polite. That's aboot it.

Thanks for watching! Hope one day can visit your area again! 😊

yeah, the decision makers in Ottawa and Washington should have come over to these areas and take a look and they will IMMEDIATELY change their mind about these comically stupid rules, at least in areas like point roberts

These rules were inhumane and hopefully never implemented again as they didn't do anything about the spread of covid.

You can cross the road into te Park. Canadians and Americans are both free to enter the park from their respective sides.

haha hope you can now see how it looks like today!

@@beyounged looks the same just a different color, caught the bus just up the road to go to Blaine school, and only a chain to mark the border

@@macrichardson6966 now it is a fence. I filmed the shot over the street by standing on top of a bucket. and the Blaine bus is no longer running.

You could enter both countries without a passport

@@jaykaye7025 There still should be no borders for US and Canadians.

@@jaykaye7025 what do you need though?

@@SeattleMartin LOL That's BS. America is a large and diverse place. Canada's population is only a couple of hundred thousand higher than California's. You can't seriously compare the two. I think you need to go to other places and see how violent they are. South America is extremely violent.