Trump’s victory last year – and a promise to enact the country’s largest mass deportation – initially prompted concern among political leaders in Canada that the country could experience a surge of migrants fleeing north and crossing unpatrolled areas of the 5,500-mile border – as happened during Trump’s first term.
Canada intercepts people trying to cross border in ‘incredibly cold’ conditions Nine Venezuelans including children found by police in Alberta with a second group apprehended in Manitoba.
US Customs and Border Protection says 23,721 people were apprehended last fiscal year crossing its northern border, up from the 2,238 caught two years prior.
Ever since he was elected, Donald Trump has turned his focus to Canada’s border with the United States, alleging it is the source of vast amounts of fentanyl and illegal migration – neither of which is borne out by evidence.
More than a dozen people have been caught making the hazardous crossing into Canada, renewing focus on the closely watched – and seasonally perilous – border with the United States.
