Profane and dishonest: Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
CBSA officers do pretty much whatever they like; in practice making themselves the exclusive interpreters of the law, to cover for what they regard as loopholes in the law.
Canada extradited me to USA on June 1, 2011. But not only that, the Canadian government also detained, handcuffed, incarcerated, lied and swore at me. At least one of these three different explanations is plausible: 1) the specific senior CBSA officer at the Vancouver Intl. Airport may have been demonised and manifested irrational demonic rage 2) symptoms of a (local/national) CBSA workplace culture, through their vested powers and discretion coupled with lack of journalistic transparency or real judicial accountability (do whatever they want) 3) a Canadian federal covert directive to extradite. Whatever the true reason is, it has with certainty created for me an even further sad situation.
Since June 2010 I have concretely sought to marry a Christian English-speaking woman somewhere on earth, and I have taken steps to make myself physically available in churches in Canada and in USA for such a meeting to be possible. Because my only brother lives in Canada, I wanted to exhaust first the possibilities to connect with churches, and subsequently with Christian singles in those churches, in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada, where my brother’s family resides. Long-time stay in a location is determinative to developing trusting relationships, but since I am no longer a permanent resident to Canada, I entered Canada on a visitor visa for the maximum permissible stay of 180 days. I entered Canada on Nov.18, 2010, and departed from Canada to Stockholm on Apr.27, 2011. I then remained in Sweden for one month between Apr.28 and May 31, 2011, and on May 31, 2011 I flew to Vancouver via Chicago with intention to enter Canada a second time as a visitor for the maximum permissible time of 180 days. My plan this time was to try to connect with the remaining Christian churches in the Okanagan region of B.C. for three months, and if I then determined that I were unable to discover a Christian church in the Okanagan region of B.C., then I would explore the Christian churches in Vancouver B.C. My plan was also, that if I were unsuccessful at connecting with any Christian church in Vancouver, then I would continue my search for a Christian church in the U.S.A. That was my plan.
I departed from Stockholm on May 31. When I arrived at the Canadian Passport Control at the Vancouver International Airport on May 31, via Chicago, I was sent aside by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers for further questioning and investigation. I arrived at Vancouver Aiport at approximately 6:30 PM. CBSA officers questioned me and scrutinised every part of my luggage. I answered truthfully all questions and was entirely transparent with my personal life towards the CBSA officers. After several hours of interrogation by one of the CBSA officers, a senior CBSA officer approached me with anger (he was angry with dilated pupils and an angry voice) and said that I was not allowed to enter Canada because CBSA believed that I was “living in Canada”, that I was “using a loophole in the law” when I stay six months in Canada and return to Canada one month later as a visitor for another six months. The senior CBSA officer demanded that I choose one of two options which he phrased something like "you can either have us send you back or that we force you". When I in a gentle tone tried to ask more about what these two choices were, he became even more upset and verbally cut off my questions, by restating his conditional question. There was absolutely no room for dialogue, and I tried to make sense of what this Canadian CBSA officer was saying and thinking. Both CBSA officers (the younger and the senior) suddenly walked away into a room. I had been standing up answering CBSA questions (intermittently sitting on a bench while officers disappeared) for approximately six and a half (6˝) hours until 1 AM on 1/6, at which time the younger CBSA officer requested that I replace my belongings into my luggage and follow another CBSA female officer into a room. The female CBSA officer said that I shall be staying the night in a “room downstairs”. I was requested to sign documents regarding confiscation of all my travel belongings and valuables. I drew the conclusion that I was being detained. They took my shoes, belt and watch off and escorted me to sit in a nearby cell with a wall-mounted telephone. They connected me with a Legal Aid. The lawyer on the phone simply declared that he was not an immigration lawyer and that he did not know much about this area since he was a criminal lawyer. After that telephone call, I was body searched and handcuffed with my arms behind my back; the time then probably being around 3 AM.
I was treated by Canadian CBSA officers as a high-risk prisoner. Handcuffed with arms behind my back, two Canadian officers escorted me, one officer in front and one officer behind grabbing my thumb and elbow, down an elevator and through a long basement corridor, and into a Vancouver Airport prison. In the Canadian prison I was photographed and later led into a cell. At all times two Canadian officers were present. If one entered the cell, the other would stand and observe me from behind a glass door. At 3:30 AM, after 9 hours of treatment by Canadian CBSA officers, I was finally allowed to lie down in the prison cell. I had at most 2˝ hrs of sleep. I was told that I would be required to be awake at 6 AM. At about 6 AM, the prison guards body searched me again, by making me lean forward against a wall with arms outstretched, followed by a cell room search. Around 7 AM I was served some scrambled eggs and toast and a coffee. This was my first prepared meal since 18 hrs; food which I very much appreciated at that stage.
At 9:30 AM I was again searched and handcuffed, this time with my arms in front, and led down the same long corridor in the basement and then up an elevator to arrivals. I was thirsty and unshaven.
Canadian CBSA officers (10348 and 21209) curtly told me that I was being extradited back to the USA on a 11:15 AM United flight to Chicago. Officer 21209 walked away for some minutes. When I asked a question to CBSA officer 10348, he swore at me and replied something like "Don't fucking make my work hard." I was surprised to hear him swear at me, so I asked him not to swear, where upon he said “Everybody uses that word.” CBSA officers (10348 and 21209) then returned my items. After my items were returned, I said to the CBSA officers that I did appreciate being sworn at and that I would report it. The swearing CBSA officer 10348 then said “I did not swear at you.”. I said that I would like to have my water bottle back. CBSA officers said I did not need it.
The same two CBSA officers then escorted me (felt like they paraded me), unshaved and thirsty, through the public line-up crowds at check-in, luggage drop, and to line-ups at US customs. As I arrived at the first counter for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), I finally hear with clarity what I am charged with as the CBSA officer mentioned it to the first CBP officer. I heard "he is living in Canada". Although not clearly directing this information to me, through their information I had something to challenge, so I mentioned to the US CBP officer that I guaranteed that these Canadian officers lied against me. I asked the second US CBP officer if I may quickly summarise the truth for them, and the US CBP officer listened.
I said to US CBP that: When I applied to Canada to return as a permanent resident and was denied returning resident status, and later appealed the Canadian Immigration decision on Compassionate and Humanitarian Grounds, the Canadian judge motivated that I should not be allowed to return to Canada as a permanent resident for the reasons that: 1) I had insufficient connections to Canada and no connection to my brother or parents, and 2) I had no connection to any Christian church in Canada. But now, Canadian authorities instead believe that I have too many connections to Canada to allow that I enter as a tourist. And Canadian CBSA falsely claim that I am living in Canada. I also mentioned that I had explained to the Canadian officers that my primary objective to visiting Canada is to connect with a Christian church and from that church-connection try to connect with a Christian woman for marriage. And that my objectives for visiting the USA is exactly the same.
My priority is still to explore the remaining churches in the Okanagan region of B.C. Canada so that I can, after marriage, live close to my only brother and his family. My second priority is to explore the remaining churches in Vancouver. In April 2011 I began to connect with one church (realityvancouver.com) which I would like to continue to explore, as that pastor is currently the only pastor in Vancouver who replied to my mass-email general inquiry. And my third priority is to continue to explore the churches across the U.S.A.