“While it isn’t as secure as it should be...”
A couple of times I have been a ‘wetback’ in Canada. I have sailed across Lake Erie to Rondeau Bay, Ontario. Did it once on the 4th of July. Never passed immigration or customs on the Canadian side. Never passed ‘Go’. We had fireworks and set them off on the dock there. (Come and get us, we are here!) No one came. And when we sailed back to Ohio, no INS incompetents were there to great us.
I’ve been an illegal in Canada too but I wasn’t hanging out in the parking lot of Timmies looking for work and I speak the language fluently. I kinda blended in.