Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures

[Umka36 781]

Wouldn't be surprise if some were approved as refugee to get into the US, but don't like what's going on and traveling to Canada to claim asylum. If that's the case, it's a strange situation to get approved as a refugee to the US only to go to Canada to filing asylum claim against the US.

Edited February 17, 2017 by Umka36

[Boiler 47,483]

Difficult to tell exactly what is going on, sadly the days of reporters actually reporting seems a long time ago.

 

Obviously Trump is a factor and I have seen mention of people who have been denied Asylum in the US and facing deportation.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Just now, Umka36 said:

Wouldn't be surprise if some were approved as refugee to get into the US, but don't like what's going on and traveling to Canada to claim asylum. If that's the case, it's a stranger situation to get approved as a refugee to the US only to go to Canada to filing asylum claim against the US.

Not possible due to the SCTA: http://www.asylumist.com/2016/03/31/asylum-in-canada-is-not-for-everyone-sorry-aboot-that/

 

unless they meet one of the guidelines

[Boiler 47,483]

1 minute ago, Transborderwife said:

Not possible due to the SCTA: http://www.asylumist.com/2016/03/31/asylum-in-canada-is-not-for-everyone-sorry-aboot-that/

 

unless they meet one of the guidelines

I believe that only applies for those seeking entry at a PoE.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Just now, Boiler said:

I believe that only applies for those seeking entry at a PoE.

That part I'm unsure of.  However usually in the cases we have seen so far, they're caught and brought to a POE to make their claim.

[Umka36 781]

1 minute ago, Transborderwife said:

Not possible due to the SCTA: http://www.asylumist.com/2016/03/31/asylum-in-canada-is-not-for-everyone-sorry-aboot-that/

 

unless they meet one of the guidelines

Well going to be a hard/futile lesson for those who try then.

[Boiler 47,483]

4 minutes ago, Transborderwife said:

That part I'm unsure of.  However usually in the cases we have seen so far, they're caught and brought to a POE to make their claim.

By then they have entered so a different situation, that is why the focus is on unofficial crossing points, much easier otherwise to go to a regular PoE.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Just now, Umka36 said:

Well going to be a hard/futile lesson for those who try then.

Indeed.

 

Canada has made it very hard for illegal immigrants in general.  It's virtually impossible to work without a social insurance number, many employers now require seeing the physical card or paper before granting employment.  Healthcare doesn't come free to everyone either and health cards must be presented in most places at every visit.  Especially in metropolitan areas.

[Umka36 781]

Maybe we'll hear folks running south of the border to Mexico to claim asylum next.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

1 minute ago, Umka36 said:

Maybe we'll hear folks running south of the border to Mexico to claim asylum next.

If Canada follows through with adopting Turks and Caicos I'm moving  ?? 

[Boiler 47,483]

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/13/axing-canada-us-refugee-agreement-would-open-floodgates

 

This article covers the agreement and why they have to cross at an undocumented crossing.

[Boiler 47,483]

Asylum-seekers flee US border patrol for Canada: 'Nobody cares about us'

Eight people, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border as US border patrol tried to stop them and a photographer captured the scene

 

 

 A man who claimed to be from Sudan runs for the border after taking his family’s passports from a US border patrol officer. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters

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Saturday 18 February 2017 16.34 GMT

Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a US border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.

Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures

 

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As a US Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.

One by one they scrambled across the snowy gully separating the two countries. RCMP officers watching from the other side helped them up, lifting the younger children and asking a woman, who leaned on her fellow passenger as she walked, if she needed medical care.

The children looked back from where they had come as the US officer held the first man, saying his papers needed to be verified.

The man turned to a pile of belongings and heaved pieces of luggage two at a time into the gully – enormous wheeled suitcases, plastic shopping bags, a black backpack.

“Nobody cares about us,” he told journalists. He said they were all from Sudan and had been living and working in Delaware for two years.

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 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers assist a child from a family that claimed to be from Sudan as they walk across the US-Canada border. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters

The RCMP declined on Friday to confirm the nationalities of the people. A Reuters photo showed that at least one of their passports was Sudanese.

The man then appeared to grab their passports from the US officer before making a run for the border. The officer yelled and gave chase but stopped at the border marker. Canadian police took hold of the man’s arm as he crossed.

The border patrol officer told his counterpart that the man was in the United States illegally and that he would have detained him.

Officers on both sides momentarily eyed the luggage strewn in the snow before the US officer took it, and a walker left on the road, to the border line.

The RCMP carried the articles to their vehicles, and the people piled in to be driven to a nearby border office to be interviewed by police and to make a refugee claim.

People seeking refugee status have been pouring over the Canada-US border as the United States looks to tighten its policies on refugees and illegal immigrants. Asylum-seekers sneak across because even if they are caught, they can make a claim in Canada; if they make a claim at a border crossing, they are turned away.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

8 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Asylum-seekers flee US border patrol for Canada: 'Nobody cares about us'

Eight people, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border as US border patrol tried to stop them and a photographer captured the scene

 

 

 A man who claimed to be from Sudan runs for the border after taking his family’s passports from a US border patrol officer. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters

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Saturday 18 February 2017 16.34 GMT

Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a US border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.

Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures

 

 

View gallery

As a US Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.

One by one they scrambled across the snowy gully separating the two countries. RCMP officers watching from the other side helped them up, lifting the younger children and asking a woman, who leaned on her fellow passenger as she walked, if she needed medical care.

The children looked back from where they had come as the US officer held the first man, saying his papers needed to be verified.

The man turned to a pile of belongings and heaved pieces of luggage two at a time into the gully – enormous wheeled suitcases, plastic shopping bags, a black backpack.

“Nobody cares about us,” he told journalists. He said they were all from Sudan and had been living and working in Delaware for two years.

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 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers assist a child from a family that claimed to be from Sudan as they walk across the US-Canada border. Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters

The RCMP declined on Friday to confirm the nationalities of the people. A Reuters photo showed that at least one of their passports was Sudanese.

The man then appeared to grab their passports from the US officer before making a run for the border. The officer yelled and gave chase but stopped at the border marker. Canadian police took hold of the man’s arm as he crossed.

The border patrol officer told his counterpart that the man was in the United States illegally and that he would have detained him.

Officers on both sides momentarily eyed the luggage strewn in the snow before the US officer took it, and a walker left on the road, to the border line.

The RCMP carried the articles to their vehicles, and the people piled in to be driven to a nearby border office to be interviewed by police and to make a refugee claim.

People seeking refugee status have been pouring over the Canada-US border as the United States looks to tighten its policies on refugees and illegal immigrants. Asylum-seekers sneak across because even if they are caught, they can make a claim in Canada; if they make a claim at a border crossing, they are turned away.

 

[TBoneTX 47,510]

Self-deportation might solve a lot of primary and secondary issues.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

9 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Self-deportation might solve a lot of primary and secondary issues.

I have always said. If you cut off the means to make a living, it will take care of it self