This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published July 04, 2010 and can be found here.
On this July 4th weekend I thought it fitting to share a stunning factoid with you: the Border Patrol station in Rochester, N.Y. apprehended more than 1,200 people who did not qualify to be in the United States in 2007...
That's more than any of the other 41 stations on the U.S./Canadian border. Andrew Burton , photography major at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications documented this find in the film above -- take a look.
Now go celebrate your many freedoms by lighting up a sparkler... oh snap, looks like you're gonna need a permit for that . Screw it, I'm lighting up anyway. Come get me policeman.
