‘What the heck is going on?’ Why this B.C. community put up a border fence with the U.S.

A caller cross-border obstruction has sparked immoderate contention on a tiny portion of the world’s longest undefended border.

The concatenation nexus obstruction is on the occidental broadside of Point Roberts connected the Canadian broadside of the border.

“Everyone says, ‘What the heck is going on?'” said Brian Calder, a dual national and erstwhile manager of the Point Roberts Chamber of Commerce.

The City of Delta said it enactment up the obstruction aft a Tsawwassen elder died erstwhile helium went for a locomotion and it was aboriginal realized that helium had crossed into Point Roberts.

“The obstruction astatine the extremity of English Bluff Road was installed by the City of Delta astatine the petition of Delta Police pursuing their reappraisal into a Delta elder who walked crossed the borderline and died successful Point Roberts,” the metropolis said successful a statement.

Delta constabulary said the incidental with the missing antheral highlighted the value of proactive measures to forestall akin issues successful the future.

The measurement seeks to heighten assemblage information by mitigating the hazard of akin incidents occurring successful the future, constabulary said successful a statement.

A idiosyncratic present crossing the borderline astatine this determination indispensable archetypal deliberately transverse the fence.

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Delta City Councillor Daniel Boisvert said the substance was ne'er presented to the council.

Immigration lawyer Len Saunders told Global News that the Treaty of Ghent from the 1800s, states that nary impediments tin beryllium wrong 10 feet oregon 3.05 metres of the Canada-U.S. border.

“The timing of it is truthful ironic,” Saunders said. “My contiguous absorption was ‘This is (Donald) Trump … but it’s the Canadians doing it.”

Not everyone is against it.

Tsawwassen nonmigratory Al Thomas said helium sees radical crossing the borderline each the clip adjacent to his location and they bash not adjacent look to spot the signage.

“If it keeps radical from accidentally walking crossed it … sure,” Thomas said of the fence.

The International Boundary Commission told Global News that it did not authorize the enactment and it was investigating.

The Tsawwassen First Nation said it person nary comment.