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Border officers at one Ontario port of entry are becoming increasingly alarmed by the number of drivers coming into Canada without clearing customs first and are frustrated because they can’t do anything when it happens, says the union that represents them.

Jean-Pierre Fortin, president of the Customs and Immigration Union, shared with the National Post several emails he’s received in recent months from staff at the Cornwall, Ont., port of entry expressing concern about drivers who either speed through the port of entry without completing inspection or drivers who bypass customs altogether.

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“We have had two more port runners this evening,” said one email in early March. “Travelling northbound in tandem at a high rate of speed, a passenger van and a full-size sedan crossed into the southbound lane … evading the POE (port of entry), and driving in to Cornwall.”

Another email, in February, said: “It is frustrating and unbelievable that we can actually see vehicles running into Canada and nothing we can do to stop them.”