For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec, Derby line, Vermont, Border-Straddling Haskell are not required to enter the free library and opera house.
However, the municipal and library officials said they decided to end the US government unilaterally unilaterally unjustified agree on Friday. In a period of increasing tension between the two countries, the decision is desired in communities on both sides of the border, which is simply by flower pots.
Inside the library, the international friendship was celebrated, Pauline Lussier and Chris Blais, they put each other’s shoulders because they stood on both sides of the line. Lussier, a Canadian and Blais, an American, the first time he met an American day.
“There’s never a line, there is never,” said Blais, who spent an American flag, even if Lussier was a Canadian.
“Our children returned from this border without any problems … All this will change now and there is no reason for it,” Blais said.
Only Canada and American citizens in the library were able to intervene in the border line, which was later returned to the necessary country. In 2016, President Barack Obama praised the symbolic significance of the library built in 1901. “Once the resident of one of these border cities said,” We are two different countries, but we are like a big city, “he said.
A spokesman for the United States has confirmed that a spokesman for the protection is more pronounced. Starting in the coming days, only library card holders and employees will be able to enter the building through the main door of Canada.
As of October 1, no Canadians, law enforcement agencies, postal supply, postal supply, postal supply, officials, officials, officials and disabled people will not be able to enter the library through the United States.
The statement accepted the library as a “unique place”, but it was staged in a new approach to the security reasons for the border body.
“Due to the convenience of the library and the convenience of local populations, CBP, the library allows customers to enter the sidewalk for decades,” the agency said. “However, during this period, this area witnessed the continued increase in illegal border activities.”
In recent years, including a number of events in the library, which resulted in firearms in the last year, said a number of events took place.
Urban and library officials, Canadian visitors without a library card, guests who do not have a library card, will be entered with the rear door on the Canadian side along a grass stretching. The library announced on Friday, about 69,000 ($ 100,000 canadian), pavement, new parking and a cargo starting at a price.
Stanstead Mayor Jody Stone, the US decision said, “There is no meaning.” However, he said that US President Donald Trump’s decision will not affect the close relationship between communities sharing municipal services and facilities.
“No matter what this management does, the Stanstead and the derby line will not change,” he said.
Several inhabitants, some tears gathered to cancel the decision on the border. Penny Thomas stood on the American side, “Open Haskell,” he said.
In February, Boston sphere US homeland Security Secretary Christi Noem, visited the library and said that the 51st State of Canada was prepared for the 51st State for leaving the border.
According to the library’s website, Canadian visitors were allowed to enter the library by the main entrance on the US side. Passports or visas were not necessary, library officials would follow the movements of the US border patrol and the royal canadian, and warned the actions of the police could want to see.
