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MONTREAL (Reuters) – Crossing the US-Canada border（边界）to go to

church on a Sunday cost a US citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington’

s strict new security（安全）rules.

The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives

right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of

Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The

nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to

church.

There are many such situations in these areas along the largely

unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the US-which in

some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through

buildings.

As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago

when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as

usual. The US customs（海关）station in this are is closed on Sundays, so

be just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend

since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border

security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs office,

where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the

border illegally（非法）.