Here's an unusual immigration story:

[Ocelot II]

Twelve people — eight citizens of Great Britain and four citizens of Ireland — were taken into custody by the border patrol last month after they allegedly entered the country illegally near the Canadian border with Minnesota...

A Border Patrol agent with the Warroad Station was notified Sept. 25 that two vehicles had illegally entered the country near Roseau, Minn.

During the search for the vehicles, the agent found them at a gas station in Grygla, Minn. As he drew closer, one vehicle left the station. After speaking to the occupants of the vehicle that remained, one citizen of Britain and three citizens of Ireland were taken into custody.

The next day, an International Falls agent spotted the second vehicle, which was unoccupied at the time, at a restaurant in Bemidji. After speaking to a front desk clerk at a nearby hotel and working with the Beltrami County sheriff’s office, the agent was able to locate an additional eight people who had entered the country illegally — seven from Great Britain and one from Ireland.

https://www.twincities.com/2022/10/08/mn-canada-border-crossing-illegally-ireland-great-britain/

Why would Brits want to come here? Is Liz Truss that bad?

[MichMan]

1. Did they claim asylum?

[Ocelot II]

2. Not so much, looks like they might be smuggling people.

[DFW]

3. My wife was once almost arrested at the US-Canadian border

She was visiting a friend in northern Vermont, and they went to Canada for lunch. On the way back, the US border guard asked my wife when she was going back, and she gave the date of her return flight, and the CBP idiot said she was overstaying her visa-free allowance (90 days) by a day. Knowing this was BS, since she had only been in the USA a few weeks, she thought quickly, and said, “oh, you’re right, of course. I gave you the date of my arrival back in Germany. The flight out of the USA always departs the night before, of course.” The guy accepted this, and let her back in. He had just been too lazy to look carefully for her entry stamp from a few weeks earlier, which the CBP officer at Logan Airport in Boston had stamped inconspicuously in the middle of several other US entries. But I found it, so the CBP guy in Vermont could have, too.