littlejoe
Veteran Expediter
Had the unfortunate fun of being searched by Border Patrol while taking a load into Canada of the other day.
They pulled me over and said that my paperwork was not in order, which I head checked and double checked.
I went into the customs building where they sent me up to the third floor to some other border broker that I knew nothing about. come to find out that the border broker that was crossing me was using them as a third-party office
( guess they can't fit all these so called border brokers in one building)
So I go back downstairs with the paperwork being corrected. immediately they ask if they can search my vehicle. To which I said yes thinking they were just checking the load and let me go on my way.
Wrong move there ...they tore the van apart and had me stand outside in freezing weather while they did their little search.
After that they asked me to come back inside the building weather female agent hand me a paper says you're not going into Canada tonight because I have an assault charge on my license or my background they handed me the paper asked me to sign it and then I told her I my father was from Canada. She then stated if I could show my birth certificate that my father was born in Canada I would have rights to Canada. I went back out to search for this . it took me well over 3/4 of an hour to find it .
After showing the supervisor the paperwork that I had, I was immediately admitted into Canada .My question is did I do anything wrong ? Or do they just like hassling truck drivers?
Also how can they
go back 10 years and the rest of the law enforcement agencies can only go back 7 years?
Can anybody answer this, your help would be appreciated
Joe
They pulled me over and said that my paperwork was not in order, which I head checked and double checked.
I went into the customs building where they sent me up to the third floor to some other border broker that I knew nothing about. come to find out that the border broker that was crossing me was using them as a third-party office
( guess they can't fit all these so called border brokers in one building)
So I go back downstairs with the paperwork being corrected. immediately they ask if they can search my vehicle. To which I said yes thinking they were just checking the load and let me go on my way.
Wrong move there ...they tore the van apart and had me stand outside in freezing weather while they did their little search.
After that they asked me to come back inside the building weather female agent hand me a paper says you're not going into Canada tonight because I have an assault charge on my license or my background they handed me the paper asked me to sign it and then I told her I my father was from Canada. She then stated if I could show my birth certificate that my father was born in Canada I would have rights to Canada. I went back out to search for this . it took me well over 3/4 of an hour to find it .
After showing the supervisor the paperwork that I had, I was immediately admitted into Canada .My question is did I do anything wrong ? Or do they just like hassling truck drivers?
Also how can they
go back 10 years and the rest of the law enforcement agencies can only go back 7 years?
Can anybody answer this, your help would be appreciated
Joe
