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With open arms, Mounties help refugees who walked across the Canadian border
Updated: February 18, 2017 12:20 pm By Jesse Ferreras National Online Journalist Global News
http://globalnews.ca/news/3258012/mounties-refugees-quebec/
Every day, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrest people who cross the U.S.-Canada border illegally.
Last Saturday, the Mounties arrested a Syrian family of three in Hemmingford, Que., a town just north of the border with the state of New York, after they crossed to apply for refugee status.
Four days later, the RCMP arrested a woman and a baby who had crossed in deep snow from New York state.
Those people are just five out of a growing number making illegal crossings into Canada as the United States has wrestled with President Donald Trump’s executive order for a travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Illegal crossings have increased lately, and much of the activity has been concentrated in Quebec, RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Camille Habel told Global News last week.
Over 450 people made refugee claims at land border crossings in the province in January, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
B.C. and Manitoba have also seen more unlawful crossings in recent months.
As many as 21 asylum seekers braved the cold and crossed the border into Emerson, Man. on Saturday, after another 22 came over the previous weekend.
But refugees aren’t just coming from countries subject to Trump’s travel ban. As many as 27 Ghanaian men have crossed into Manitoba from the United States since the summer.
Two of those men lost all their fingers to frostbite when they crossed in December.
The Canadian Press gave people a closer look at border crossings in a series of photos released on Friday.
Family members from Somalia are helped into Canada by RCMP officers along the U.S.-Canada border near Hemmingford, Que., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. A number of refugee claimants are braving the elements to illicitly enter Canada.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
The photos show people from countries such as Somalia and Yemen, both of which were targeted by Trump’s travel ban, crossing the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, where they’re greeted by RCMP officers.
Border-crossers are arrested upon arrival if they’ve come over without reporting themselves, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Habel said Saturday.
But some Mounties, like this one, still greeted them with smiles and helped them with their belongings.
Family members from Somalia are helped into Canada by RCMP officers along the U.S.-Canada border near Hemmingford, Que., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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http://globalnews.ca/news/3258012/mounties-refugees-quebec/
Updated: February 18, 2017 12:20 pm By Jesse Ferreras National Online Journalist Global News
http://globalnews.ca/news/3258012/mounties-refugees-quebec/
Every day, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrest people who cross the U.S.-Canada border illegally.
Last Saturday, the Mounties arrested a Syrian family of three in Hemmingford, Que., a town just north of the border with the state of New York, after they crossed to apply for refugee status.
Four days later, the RCMP arrested a woman and a baby who had crossed in deep snow from New York state.
Those people are just five out of a growing number making illegal crossings into Canada as the United States has wrestled with President Donald Trump’s executive order for a travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Illegal crossings have increased lately, and much of the activity has been concentrated in Quebec, RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Camille Habel told Global News last week.
Over 450 people made refugee claims at land border crossings in the province in January, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
B.C. and Manitoba have also seen more unlawful crossings in recent months.
As many as 21 asylum seekers braved the cold and crossed the border into Emerson, Man. on Saturday, after another 22 came over the previous weekend.
But refugees aren’t just coming from countries subject to Trump’s travel ban. As many as 27 Ghanaian men have crossed into Manitoba from the United States since the summer.
Two of those men lost all their fingers to frostbite when they crossed in December.
The Canadian Press gave people a closer look at border crossings in a series of photos released on Friday.
Family members from Somalia are helped into Canada by RCMP officers along the U.S.-Canada border near Hemmingford, Que., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. A number of refugee claimants are braving the elements to illicitly enter Canada.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
The photos show people from countries such as Somalia and Yemen, both of which were targeted by Trump’s travel ban, crossing the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, where they’re greeted by RCMP officers.
Border-crossers are arrested upon arrival if they’ve come over without reporting themselves, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Habel said Saturday.
But some Mounties, like this one, still greeted them with smiles and helped them with their belongings.
Family members from Somalia are helped into Canada by RCMP officers along the U.S.-Canada border near Hemmingford, Que., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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http://globalnews.ca/news/3258012/mounties-refugees-quebec/
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