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To: g_w_north who wrote (209562)	10/31/2004 9:53:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576378

For the past 56 years if the Washington Redskins won their game the Sunday before the election the incumbent was the victor. If not, the challenger won. Just another one of those 'predictors' that people use. I understand that the Red Sox's management endorsed John Kerry today. O clairvoyant one, is that a good or bad omen?! <g>

To: g_w_north who wrote (209562)	11/1/2004 3:54:57 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576378

You Canadians are mean buggers! ****************************************************8 Canada won't let resident back in; woman assumed she was citizen** By Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporter Paula Jacobs is an American who, for all her adult life, thought she was Canadian, too. She has lived in British Columbia since she was a teenager, grew up and married a Canadian, and had four children — all born in Canada. All this might help explain the 38-year-old's shock when, on a recent trip back home from Seattle, she was questioned and turned away. Illegally in Canada all these years, she had no right to re-enter, she was told. She remembers the border agent's instructions as he turned her away: "The gates will be opened," he had said. "Go back to the stateside." Jacobs, who was born in the United States, finds herself in a kind of immigration nightmare Americans seldom encounter. Immigrants often mount battles to stay in the U.S. — not leave it. For more than a week now, she's been stuck in Seattle, frantically searching for a way back to her home in Vernon, B.C., in the Canadian Okanagan, where her children live and where she's held a job for five years. The Canadian Consulate in Seattle can't assist her because she's not Canadian. And several area advocacy groups probably could help, if only she was trying to stay in the U.S. — not leave. "I can't really be helped unless I'm in Canada," she said through tears from her grandmother's home in Seattle's South End. "And they won't let me in." Canadian immigration law requires those entering the country who are not citizens or permanent residents to prove they plan to leave at the end of their visit, said Sam Hyman, an immigration attorney in British Columbia. Along the 3,000-mile U.S./Canadian border, it is often American agents, not Canadians, who are known for close scrutiny of immigrants. In fact, Canada is sometimes criticized as having lax immigration laws. Its reputation for leniency became even more of an issue after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as the U.S. moved to better secure its borders. U.S. officials have said Canada is too often a staging area for foreign nationals — some of them terrorists — to sneak across the border. "[Stuff] happens going in both directions," Hyman said. "For all the noise that the current administration in the U.S. is making about porous borders, we're pretty darn tough up here — but we're nice about it." Canadian Consulate officials say other people have found themselves in predicaments similar to Jacobs' — assuming they had citizenship or permanent residency in the country when legally they did not. continued........... seattletimes.nwsource.com