Cross-Border Church Visit Costs Man $10,000

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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Crossing the U.S.-Canada border to go to church on a Sunday cost a U.S. citizen $10,000 for breaching Washington's tough new security rules.

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The local U.S. customs station is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security.


Two days later, Albert was summoned to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally.

Albert has appealed the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday mass since.


"I feel like I'm living in a jail," he said

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