US Border Patrol reassigns agents to busy Canada frontier: report

More than two dozen Border Patrol officers have been transferred to the northern border to respond to a ​historic ​spike in the number of Mexican immigrants crossing into the United States from Canada, according to a report.

Customs and Border Protection has assigned 25 extra agents to a busy section of the Canadian frontier that borders New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, NBC News reported on Monday, citing an agency spokesperson.

Some of the reassigned agents were pulled from their previous duties on the US-Mexican border, the report said.

Share

Anthony Furey: Canadians Are Taking a Second Look at Roxham Road

The Roxham Road border crossing is suddenly back in the news in a big way. And it’s causing Canadians to take a second look at the issue.

The biggest voice on this file is Quebec Premier Francois Legault, who has been vocal the past few weeks in calling on the federal government to close the makeshift crossing at the Quebec–New York border.

Share

Migrants on small boats to be barred from Britain

Asylum seekers who arrive on small boats will be removed from Britain and prohibited from returning or claiming citizenship under laws to be announced on Tuesday.

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman, the home secretary, will bring forward legislation to make all such asylum claims inadmissible. The government will seek to introduce powers to detain tens of thousands of people and place the home secretary under a legal duty to remove them “as soon as reasonably practicable”.

Share

Canada has gained a reputation of ̷t̷r̷e̷a̷t̷i̷n̷g̷ ̷p̷e̷o̷p̷l̷e̷ ̷w̷e̷l̷l̷ ̷a̷n̷d̷ ̷o̷f̷f̷e̷r̷i̷n̷g̷ ̷m̷o̷r̷e̷ ̷o̷p̷p̷o̷r̷t̷u̷n̷i̷t̷y̷, being a sucker migrant benefit shoppers say

At the U.S.-Mexico border, desperate migrants have sights set on Canada

The gruesome, sobering video is played back on a cellphone for those sitting nearby. Once seen, it is impossible to forget.

Onscreen, a crocodile is drifting along a river in the Panamanian jungle with a half-eaten human leg hanging out of its mouth, a lifeless foot perched just above the giant reptile’s droopy eyes.

It was shown to CBC News by Venezuelan migrant Nelson Ramirez, as he and his wife, Yescee Urbina, wait for guidance on finding food and shelter at a migrant aid office in Juarez, Mexico. Their remaining worldly possessions sit at their feet — two small, scuffed knapsacks of clothing.

Share

Trudeau’s illegal alien benefit shoppers not wanted in Niagara Falls

In Niagara Falls, Roxham Road asylum seekers find less space and more strife as tourist season nears

Hundreds are being ‘dumped’ from Quebec into the Niagara region only to be told they’re not wanted, advocates say, as governments give few specifics on next steps

It had been a long time since Marie Saintil had last been to church, when she found herself at the pulpit of the Faith Tabernacle in Welland, Ont., on a recent Sunday evening.

“Est-ce que tout le monde parle Créole?” she asked the small Haitian congregation, a half dozen or so of whom had been shuttled to the service in their Sunday best from the various hotels in nearby Niagara Falls where they are living. The congregation nods in unison – yes, they all speak Créole.

Share

UN seeks Canadian help for ‘enormous’ needs as number of refugees doubles

OTTAWA – The United Nations is bracing for a further increase in the number of refugees this year, as last month’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria adds to a series of crises that has the world looking to Canada for more help.

“The need around the world is enormous,” said Kelly Clements, the UN’s deputy high commissioner for refugees, on a visit to Canada this week.

“It’s the beginning of what we anticipate will be another very difficult year.”

Share

Feds Allowed Entry to Over 40% of Foreign Border-Crossers Deemed Risky: Audit

Over 40 percent of foreign border-crossers deemed by border agents to be security risks were still allowed into Canada by the Department of Immigration, according to a report.

“Due to multiple factors and considerations, the Department of Immigration authorized entry or permission to stay in Canada to a significant proportion of applicants who had received a non-favourable recommendation or an inconclusive screening,” wrote the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in an internal audit obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Share

‘It Hasn’t Stopped’: The Northern Border Is Wide Open And People Are Funneling Across

CHAMPLAIN, New York — Migrants are crossing the northern border both into the U.S. and into Canada illegally, causing chaos on both the Canadian and American sides, with the latter side reeling from the costs.

Border Patrol encountered a nearly 900% surge of migrants into the U.S. in the Swanton sector—which spans parts of New York and Vermont—in January, when agents recorded 367 apprehensions. Migrants are also crossing illegally into Canada in droves along Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, where taxis with “frontera,” or “border” written in Spanish, on them, bring people back and forth for hours every day.

Share

‘They’re going to exploit it’: U.S. border chief on increased illegal crossings at U.S.-Canada border

Increased illegal crossings from Canada into the U.S. have not reached a crisis yet, but collaboration between the two countries’ border patrols can always be improved, according to the chief of U.S. border patrol.

Raul Ortiz spoke with CTV National News’ Richard Madan on Thursday about the issues patrolling the U.S.’s northern border amid staffing shortages and an increase in crossings.

Last year, there were more than 100,000 migrant encounters from Canada, according to Homeland Security, which is more than three times the amount recorded in 2020.

Share

A neo-feudal war on the people – The elites are steadily impoverishing the working and middle classes.

An author should be pleased to see his thesis bolstered by events. Yet since writing The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 2020, I have not found any joy in the continued growth of the West’s class divides, as wealth becomes increasingly concentrated in ever fewer hands. The good news is that the working and middle classes are not yet out for the count, and are showing welcome signs of pushback against both state and corporate power.

Share

‘Deplorable conditions:’ Police rescue 64 Mexican nationals who were brought to the GTA and exploited for their labour

Diversity strikes again.

Police have arrested five people and have issued arrest warrants for two others following a months-long investigation into an alleged human trafficking ring that they say was enticing Mexican nationals into Canada with promises of a “better life” and then exploiting them for their labour.

The investigation, dubbed “Project Norte,” began in November after York Regional Police received a complaint from a single Mexican national about his work and living conditions in Canada.


How and where did they get across the Border?

The captives were transported to farms and factories to work. Why aren’t these locations named?

As far as I am concerned the Trudeau government is complicit in human trafficking.

Share

Canadians Fume as Migrants Surge at Their Border

Hélène Gravel’s house sits on Roxham Road near Canada’s most famous illegal border crossing, used by migrants leaving the United States to seek asylum up north. She has watched with increasing frustration as a bitter winter has failed to stanch record inflows and as New York City even began buying bus tickets for migrants headed her way.

“There’s no political will to fix this,’’ Ms. Gravel, 77, said in her driveway, a stone’s throw from the border.

“Canada is soft,’’ she said, adding that asylum-seekers should be processed at official border crossings. “And the United States doesn’t care because this is nothing compared with what’s happening on their southern border.”

Share

U.S. Republicans are now warning: Migration from Canada is a problem as illegals flee Trudeau’s Sh$thole state

A group of Republican lawmakers say it’s time to protect the border. No, not that border. The other one, north of the United States. The one many Americans forget.

Their focus: the frontier with Canada.

That northern border usually is an afterthought in American politics, comfortably ensconced on the back burner of the country’s searing debates about the Mexican border.

Share

Bodies of 880 immigrants found at southern border in 2022: Border Patrol

The number of deceased immigrants recovered at the U.S.-Mexico border spiked during President Joe Biden’s first full year in office last year to the highest number on record, according to data acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Washington Examiner.

Data tracked by federal law enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border indicate that a record-high 880 immigrants who illegally entered the United States were found deceased in fiscal 2022, which ended in September. The Washington Examiner obtained the Border Patrol data Monday through a FOIA request filed in July 2022.

Share