Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

3 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

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

I have said that as well. It would solve alot of problems here in California if they just cut off the benefits that the state and local governments give out to Illegals. 

[TBoneTX 47,513]

Oh, but that would be discrimination, and if not illegal, certainly abhorrent.

[Boiler 47,487]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/26/asylum-seekers-canada-trump-trudeau

 

Recent months have seen a growing number of people entering Canada at remote, unguarded locations along the US border. Doing so allows the migrants – many of whom are desperate to flee Trump’s crackdown on immigration – to skirt a longstanding pact that bars most refugee claimants in the US from applying for asylum in Canada.

Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures

 

View gallery

Advocates in Manitoba say they know of some 139 refugees – including children – who have made the perilous crossing since the start of the year, while groups in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario also report a rise in irregular crossings.

Some haul suitcases for hours across frozen fields that straddle the border, while others are dropped by taxis metres away from the Quebec border. The asylum seekers – many of whom are from Somalia, Ghana and Djibouti – say their actions are driven by fears of what a Donald Trump presidency could mean for refugees in the US.

As photos of Canadian police smiling as they greeted migrants made the rounds on social media, Trudeau said this week that the government would not seek to stem irregular migration along the US border.