According to the police, an unauthorized fence that triggered an international investigation after it was built in BC along the US border.
The Delta Police Department, which recommended the fence to have accidentally transferred to the USA after a BC senior and died in 2023, said it was completed on Thursday morning after a meeting between the police chief and the city administrator Barrier “should be” immediately removed. “
“Considerations for other options in the future to alleviate the risks determined in the evaluation are examined,” said the department in a statement.
The residents of Delta were not delighted with the unguarded black chain cabin fence that was created at the beginning of this month, a project through which the mayor and the city council were not consulted.
On Wednesday, the international border commission, a bi-national organization that was responsible for regulating the construction work near the Canada US border, confirmed CBC News that it did not approved the fence and examined the matter.
The Commission said it was informed about the fence removal without commenting on what it means for his investigation.
The Delta City Councilor Daniel Boisvert, one of the loudest opponents of the fence, said he was happy to see the fence and said he didn't like what it was.
“I had the feeling that this type of fence, barrier, wall (whatever you want to call it) did not symbolize the trust that our two countries have shared for decades,” he said on Thursday in an explanation.
Fence not authorized
Immigration and historical experts said that the fence had probably violated a historical policy that should keep the border from Canada-US border from coast to coast to coast should be clear- when Canada was still a British colony.
The fence in Delta was only centimeters from a sign, on which “no construction or no trees” were 10 feet or three meters from the international border.
At the beginning of this month interview Point Roberts, Washington, journalist of Canadian News Outlets, residents of a chain-link fence that was recently built near the US Canada border. (Benoît Ferradini/CBC News)
The approximately 30 meter long fence was set up at the end of the English Bluff Road in Tsawwassen, a municipality within the suburb of Metro Vancouver in Delta, on the side of the border on a park in the Washington State community of Point Roberts.
The Delta Police Department recommended that the fence should be built to prevent people from entering the USA, after an incident of 2023, in which a Senior Tsawwassen was walking, and did not return home. He was found dead in Point Roberts a few days later after he was accidentally driven to the USA
The Monument Park in Point Roberts, which has grassy space that extends across the border to Canada, is a place where Canadians and Americans were historically able to meet picnic without going through the border patrol. During the Covid 19 pandemic, it became a particularly popular meeting place when the borders were officially closed.
While there has been no fence along this part of the border, there were and are boundary patrol cameras that monitor the area. Many other parts of the short border are privately owned by a variety of fences or, as Harvie described, low barriers that prevent cars from crossing.
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