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The US-Canada Border's Constitution-Free Zone | The Nation

12th February 2013

In the news: The US-Canada Border’s Constitution-Free Zone | The Nation February 7 2013

Before September 11, 2001, more than half the border crossings between the United States and Canada were left unguarded at night, with only rubber cones separating the two countries. Since then, that 4,000 mile "point of pride," as Toronto's Globe and Mail once dubbed it, has increasingly been replaced by a US homeland security lockdown, although it's possible that, like Egyptian-American Abdallah Matthews, you haven't noticed.

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