Drug War Refugee
March, 2000
one woman's flight from injusticeOne spring afternoon in 1998, Renee Boje arrived at a Canadian checkpoint just over the border from Bellingham, Washington. She had only $50 cash and a backpack filled with her belongings. The Canadian border guard asked her name, then typed it into a computer, which promptly produced an official record. It indicated that Boje had been accused of a crime in the U.S. but that the charges had been dropped. The computer didn't provide specifics, so the guard asked B...
