Family expelled after crossing the border using the Haskell Library lawn

Ablack car carrying seven people sped across the manicured lawn of the Haskell Free Library in Derby Line, Vt., which straddles the border of Vermont and Canada, on the Fourth of July, according to Border Patrol officials.

As it pulled onto the street around 5 p.m., the car nearly collided with another vehicle, according to Richard Ross, the patrol agent in charge of the Newport station.

“I’m sure their adrenaline was pumping and in their haste to enter undetected, they weren’t paying attention at all to their surroundings, and they almost collided with another vehicle,” Ross said. “It was a near miss.”

The scene was captured on surveillance video by the Swanton Sector of the United States Border Patrol. Agents in the Newport station were dispatched to intercept the car as it traveled south along Interstate 91, authorities said.

Agents pulled the car over about 20 miles south of Derby Line. Ross said the occupants of the vehicle — a family ranging in age from less than a year old to 54 years old — were cooperative.

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