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Inspection Most of the inspections at the Port Angeles cross- ing take place outdoors where the wind and the salt air skip off the water. The inspectors stand next to gray tables bolted together from scrap lumber. They question those coming off the ferry. What’s your name? Where are you coming from? Why are you going? How long will you stay? If an inspector needs to make a phone call or check the computer, they walk to a ramshackle trailer, where wayward sparrows and seagulls nest in the rafters. The inspectors feed the birds. One by one, the bor-

Border security agents around the world make sure that the people coming into their countries are who they say they are.

der agents ask their ques- tions. One by one, they wave travelers through. One by one, the cars move up Lane 2. The longer Ressam waits, the more nervous he becomes. He carries a Canadian passport and

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