New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt is speaking out against the recent detention of a Bangor-born Wabanaki elder’s Canadian fiancee at the U.S. border ports of entry in Houlton and Calais.
“It’s completely unacceptable that anyone would face this kind of discrimination at the border,” Holt told the Bangor Daily News.
David Slagger, 63, a member of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and Woodstock First Nation in New Brunswick, accused officials at the Houlton and Calais border crossings of disrespecting tribal items and handcuffing his fiancee while she was crossing into the U.S. last week to visit him at his Monson home. He said it happened during multiple crossings.
“Yesterday my fiancee, Angela Daigle from Saint John, who has a valid passport, was handcuffed and detained for having