Way more migrants are now sneaking across the U.S.-Canada border
January 31, 2017
Canadian border officials are spotting a noteworthy trend: The number of people sneaking in from the United States and asking for asylum has gone way up.
One popular route leads into Quebec. Families lug suitcases "over a little ditch," as one resident described it, to avoid passport checkpoints.
This past year, 1,222 people entered Quebec illegally and requested refugee status — almost five times the total in the previous year, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. The tally in November alone was higher than the whole of 2015.
The authorities won't say whether Donald Trump's November election win has anything to do with the surge. "We can't speculate on that. We can't speculate on the motives," says Jacqueline Roby, a spokeswoman for the Canada Border Services Agency.
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