Checkpoint, USA., Entering Trump's America: A Bizarre Encounter With A Paranoid Border Agent

Alan: I was born in 1947.

I was raised in Rochester, New York, where I lived for the first 18 years of my life.

In 1965, I began undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto.

A massive milestone in my political formation was the realization that it was always -- ALWAYS -- immeasurably easier for me to "get into Canada" than to get back to my own country.

Checkpoint, USA.

Crossing Into Trump's America

A Bizarre Encounter With A Paranoid Border Agent

http://www.salon.com/2017/07/23/checkpoint-u-s-a-crossing-the-border-into-trumps-america/?google_editors_picks=true

Pax On Both Houses: Blog Posts About Canada

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/compendium-my-blog-posts-concerning.html

I am an American citizen and proud graduate of the University of Toronto where I received world-class education at the same steeply subsidized cost as Canadian citizens. 

While a Toronto undergraduate from 1965 - 1970, I received free healthcare.

My five years in Canada taught me the difference between Civilization and Barbarism.