\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.
“That happens often. It can be a real struggle to deal with the language barriers,” the agent later explained. The number of migrants crossing from Canada to the U.S. has grown so much that, this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was relocating 25 border agents to patrol the Canadian border around Quebec.
After six years of this, and plenty of political assurances that have gone nowhere, St-Bernard-de-Lacolle residents and their mayor have all but given up on a permanent solution.Article content Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Fraser said the negotiations would take longer than “a couple weeks” but that he had a “productive” meeting with Mayorkas and that there is “no doubt” in his mind that renegotiating the STCA was a “shared priority” for both parties.Article content
“The STCA is an agreement. Does one of the two parties that signed the agreement not understand the rules they agreed to?” “If they just close the passage, people will cross elsewhere, and it won’t be any better. In fact, it may be worse,” said Gaetan. “It makes things more complicated because people would be passing in all sorts of places, instead of one spot.”“To hear that shocks me, really,” the mayor said. “I don’t think there’s an easy solution to this problem.”Photo by Sebastien St-Jean/AFP via Getty Images
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