The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/06 at 07:00 EDT

Scott Payne spent nearly two decades working undercover as a biker, a neo-Nazi, a drug dealer, and a killer. But his last big mission at the FBI was the wildest of all. I have never had to burn baubles. I have never had to burn an American flag. And I damn sure was never with a group of people that stole a goat, sacrificed it in a pagan ritual, and drank its blood. And I did all that in about three days with these guys. Listen to Agent Palehorse, the second season of White Hot Hate, available now. The US administration's approach to immigration at the border impacting, I mean, you've just talked about the border communities as we look a little bit more widely.

As Canadians visit the US going forward, are you concerned about how that's going to look over the next weeks and months? Yeah, I'm concerned that the Canadian border communities are really being collateral damage in what's going on in the larger picture. By contrast, though, I was just in Texas this week in the city of Eagle Pass, 28,000 people, and in a single week they had 7,000 undocumented migrants come through their community. It's not the migrants, but it's the organized crime and the cartels that have these networks established. So people in Texas are looking for a way to reclaim their communities and unfortunately that

crisis has ramifications for the northern border as well. If you're just joining us, this is just asking on CBC Radio 1. We have been talking about travel to the US. We've still got a couple of callers that we're going to get to. Charlie and Kelly, thank you for being so patient. We're coming to you in just a second. We still have another hour of the show where we're going to be turning to parenting and

burnout that's coming up in just a few moments. But if we stay here for a moment, Charlie Baird is going to join us now from Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. Hi there. Charlie Baird Good afternoon. How are you? Anna Barber Oh, good. Thank you.

So we've been speaking about what it means if you're a Canadian citizen, but born elsewhere ties to other countries. And that seems to be something you'd like to ask about today as well. Yes, I have a son-in-law married to my daughter. They live in Victoria, BC. We have a family wedding to attend in California in August. My son-in-law was born in Columbia. He is a full citizen of Canada, always has been. I don't think he's been back to Columbia in 30 years. He's feeling hesitant about crossing the border, my daughter and son-in-law are thinking of driving down from

Victoria to California. So he's feeling hesitant about even going. Should he feel hesitant? Melissa, I'll let you take Charlie's question. Well, there are so many people who do need to travel, want to travel to the United States, people whose livelihoods depend on it, people who have family across the border. I mean, our two countries have been neighbours for as long as geography has existed, right? So there will always be people who need to travel. In terms of whether your son-in-law should be concerned. I would say on the high level, no, but I would recommend things like printing out the car rental, the wedding invitation, print out the directions or where they're going to

stay. And some of that is just a comfort thing to have some paperwork to show an officer if you're asked. It also can help alleviate some of the nerves. But a Canadian citizen born in Columbia does not require a visa to go to the United States. They would be able to be admitted at the border like a Canadian citizen who was born in Canada. So I wouldn't say there's a high level of concern there. If he possibly had a prior, obviously I don't know, but any other previous interactions with US officials that were challenging, it might be good to be aware of that and have some of those dates. So if he's asked, you know, but that's a hypothetical, I'm sure there's not been an issue, but that might be something that would cause someone in a similar situation concern. But if there's never been any issue with immigration before, doesn't spend a

lot of time in the United States, is entering for a legitimate temporary purpose returning to his home in Canada, I would have very little concern. Laura, do you want to add anything? I would just add that, sort of echoing something Melissa said earlier, if there's, I mean, it might give people more comfort to make sure that you travel through a larger border crossing where you've got a, it's well staffed, you you know it's not the middle of the night I think as Melissa pointed out that airport pre-clearance I know that we've got some very well trained folks there they're dealing with issues all of the time and so they're better equipped for processing sort of you know gray area questions so make sure the border