BCL
Engineer
Well - I was recently in the area, so the Tsawwassen, BC-Point Roberts, WA border has got to be the oddest I've heard of.Very interesting about the Border expierence. Same thing is true along the Southern Border with Mexico.
Lots of "American Citizens" born on this side are children of Mexican Citizens, and live in Mexico until its time to start school, then commute back and forth across the Border to school!
Its become a huge political issue as we know, see the rise of " The Donald"!

Apparently residents of Point Roberts must go to public schools in Blaine, WA, which is a fairly long bus ride. However, the border wait times are supposed to be pretty short. I wonder how much this is costing both sides.
Now, I was previously getting at the strange disconnect between the Canadian entrance requirements for US citizens (we just want you to prove to us you're a US citizen) vs the US reentry requirements for US citizens (we want you to show us an approved document). I understand that travel across the border and back used to be extremely common with just a birth certificate and photo ID, but that's a thing of the past. I'm wondering who would think to get into Canada with just a US city/county/state issued birth certificate and photo ID, since the US reentry documents are different. I suppose they're not in the business of denying reentry to US citizens, so they'll just tell someone to go to their office while they sort it out by checking their database. I really doubt this would work on a train though. At least when I took the ferry back to Washington state, there was a prescreening on the Canada side to at least check to see we had the proper documents along with questions about what we were bringing back and the requirements to do so. We had some unlabeled produce that we were told to finish and/or dispose before entering Washington. We were also told that an produce with an origin label in the US was fine.