C-SPAN Cities Tour - Bellingham: Point Roberts, an American Exclave 

This is really interesting. I grew up in southern BC and only recently found out about this place. Glad we have you guys as neighbors, cheers.

This must be the most nonsensical border there is. I can't believe that the US government spends money to pay for 8 people to permanently staff the border check point there. This is a crazy waste of money. The end result is that everyone is inconvenienced at no added value.

Is there no ferry, it seems the school could hire a small boat? It seems a better solution than the hassle of a border.

Why not start a ferry service?

Treating the US/Canadian border like it is the US/Mexican border is so stupid. It has wrecked a way of life from Washington State to Maine that has existed with few problems for hundreds of years.

“To get to Canada you need to cross the border once” Really?

I wonder if a lot of people in the Witness protection program live there

My parents bought a piece of land there and are going to retire in Pt Bob. It's going to be a pain visiting them 😆

Minnasota has land in Manitoba lake of the woods.

I have visited Point Roberts a few times, as we had friends there. It is very odd, as there is very little there except for homes of the people who live there. As I recall a few places to eat. The canary is closed, and that sort of killed the economy.

They said 40 miles one way to school ? If that's the case that would be better off being homeschooled.

neat story!....unique and interesting....how our past effects some of us today....

What will happen if it’s given to Canada on thanksgiving day as a gift ? It’s only a small land.

I drove there before when I was doing a trip through Vancouver with friends. Its an interesting little oddity to visit. Not much there but it is definitely the United States. Its a small little town with a supermarket, gas station (and not that much cheaper than Canadian gas prices to make the trip there worth it), some other gift shops and homes not much else. It definitely is a great place to go if you still want to be in the US but be as isolated from it as you can get besides moving to some unknown parts of Alaska. Not even sure why the United States is still keeping the land though. It really is nothing special and you are landlocked in Canada. Can't get in or out without going through British Columbia. Just seems like its one of those old map disputes that we aren't budging on just because and no other reason to keep it. Was cool to visit though just out of a curiosity sake but it's nothing special besides being a quirky part of the country. I'm sure it has relocated people there or some other reason to invest so much into this square land piece that provides nothing else to the country but being a strange part of history that we even have it. They even have full boarder crossing and guards you have to cross through to get in and out of it. So they invest in this little square for some reason.

I agree with Mr.Ali Sabzwari.A ferry could be the perfect solution for this complicated transportation problem.By having a ferry service people won’t have to cross the Canadian border anymore.This was already done between the states of Washington and Alaska,now it’s not necessary to cross the Canadian border to travel between both states! Let’s do the same thing for this other location!

Why are the children not brought across by boat..?! Ice? … Seems like a ridiculous process by land when the water is right there.

I wanna live there

How did Point Roberts become an American enclave anyway, it's such an inconvenience to live there. If the US doesn't cede it to Canada, wouldn't turning it into a military base or a prison make more sense? Or maybe some rich American will decide to buy all private property in Point Roberts and make it a micro-nation.

Put a weed shop, it's legal by state, see what happens to their economy

4:40 The US did cede land north of the 49th parallel in the treaty. So the US was in the business of ceding territory. I suspect it had more to do with the British not giving a freak about that little piece of land, then the US not being willing to cede it.

Wish govt improved on water transit.

You do know about the North wester Angle?

Why not build a bridge to the mainland? *sarcasm*

Wuow points Robert primera gue es cuchos esta suidad

Point Roberts and Angle Inlet are one thing. Saint Pierre and Miquelon belonging to France is even crazier. Its just off the coast of Newfoundland. Why is it still apart of France?

If according to treaty, Victoria BC should belong to USA, what happened??

do they say out or oot.

Simple solution; allow all Canadian/USA border city residents apply for security clearance pass to cross without having to stop. This would save tons of time and Billions of dollars to reduce border agents needed.. The money wasted to bus these children 2 hours every day is ridiculous and could be spent on paying for them to go to a school in Canada. Also if you allowed commerce to cross freely, many more people and businesses would move to Point Roberts and they would eventually be able to open their own school, possibly a small community college

If they don't want to give it to Canada, why not just let people go to school in Canada?

now i bet the Covid stuff has REALLY messed with them

Gas is 89 cents? Damn, this was made a while ago.

Why are we paying to staff a border checkpoint for a city of 1300 people? Just give this place to Canada already. Throw in the Angle Inlet too. Or trade them for a couple of islands in the San Juans or Lake Huron.

A one-room school with one teacher would be a reasonable solution.

Wouldn't it make more sense to let the residents of Point Robert's just pay some taxes to to the Canadian govt for use of schools and hospitals? It just makes more sense

DID I SEE GAS FOR .89???? OMGGGG!

@ 6:40...$9.00/gal. for gas?!? Jesus.

Just Build a bridge.

It's 10 pm on a saturday. How fucking sad is it that watching this is what I'm doing?

Should just treat the border here like the US/Canada border was before 9/11. You could go back and forth and at the very most you may get asked for your drivers license if CBP thought you looked sketchy. If they knew you, usually a quick wave and that was it. Same thing down east at Standstead, Quebec/Derby Vermont. Town is cut in half by the border. CBP used to be locals who knew who did and didn't belong, but then some bureaucracy in DC decided they should put people who didn't know the area at all, and they treat everyone like total dickheads.

Lol my grandparents live there

Why can't kids go to school in Tsawwassen across the border? The school systems are about the same anyways. Make it easy for kids, people.

Why cant they just go to school in vancover

Don Alper needs to shut up and give us part of Vancouver island under the 49th parallel

Theres this invention called a boat..

America just needs to annex Canada LOL.

give point Roberts to Canada

$8.99 for GAS?!?!

It would be so much nicer if it was part of Canada. America doesn't need this space which is evidenced by the fact that it's so undeveloped. The Lower Mainland (Canada) actually needs the room as it's already cramped by the mountains to the north, the rest of the U.S. border to the south and the ocean to the west. Canada needs all the habitable land it can get. Most of the country is already uninhabitable. So bloody sad. And I'm sorry but any American who chooses to live there is some sort of weirdo anyways, I mean there's no other way to look at it

This is ridiculous. Just trade / sell / transfer the peninsula to Canada. 5 square miles?

This should be apart of delta bc & not “ Washington “

This place sucks why would they made it?