When eleven members of a bagpipe band from British Columbia attempted to cross the U.S. border en route to Spokane, Washington, to march in the city's St. Patrick's Day Parade, they were stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol. Because the pipers were getting free hotel rooms for participating in the parade, they were viewed as having come into the country to work as illegal migrant laborers. A spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service told the Spokesman-Review that federal laws against such remuneration are designed for the "protection of labor in the United States."

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