\u0027When you hear people saying they should close it, where will the migrants go? They’ll just walk through other roads and people’s backyards\u0027
show that government officials received an uptick of immigration and refugee-claim queries after the controversial tweet.Article content
In 2017, it was mostly Haitians crossing, presumably in response to the Trump policies. But statistics and border agents now say migrants from dozens of different countries will cross into Canada on any given day. One of the officers pulls out a phone to translate. He says, “right now you are in America. If you enter in Canada right here, it is illegal and you will be arrested. Do you understand?” He then presses something on the phone, and a digital voice repeats the message in Turkish.
Residents of Roxham Road also say they’re seeing a “concerning” increase of migrants trying to go the opposite direction, crossing from Canada into the U.S., using other nearby passages. Every resident of Roxham Road interviewed for this story said they had seen at least one instance of asylum seekers trudging through their backyards, all their possessions in tow, heading towards the U.S. border.
According to Muzzi, the only way to put an end to the steady flow of migrants back and forth is for Canada and the U.S. to renegotiate the STCA so that it extends to the entire border, and not just official crossings. His statement contradicted that of U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen last month, who said that renegotiating the STCA was not a priority because irregular migration was an international issue and Roxham Road was just a “symptom” of bigger issues.
She mentions the entrepreneurs in the U.S. who are eagerly selling rides to migrants who need a lift from bus stations in New York to the Canadian border at Roxham Road. “Can you imagine buses or taxis from Montreal that move dozens of migrants from Quebec to the border to cross into the U.S.? Imagine the reaction,” she said.Article content
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