Irregular Border Crossing

• Akwesasne police detain 13 people suspected of trying to cross illegally into U.S.

  Officers found a family of four walking down the road and another family of nine in a private home, and turned them over to Canadian authorities.

  Crime

  Aug 11, 2023
  
• ‘Persons of interest’ identified in connection with Akwesasne migrant deaths

  Police confirmed in a news release Thursday that two vehicles were seized Wednesday from two different locations in Akwesasne and warrants were obtained to examine the vehicles.

  Canada

  Apr 13, 2023
  
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• Quebec premier ‘happy’ with Roxham Road closure

  As part of the new deal, Canada committed to accepting 15,000 immigrants from the Western Hemisphere. But François Legault insists Quebec has already carried its weight. 

  Politics

  Mar 24, 2023
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• ‘More than enough’ staff to process economic immigration applications on time: PBO

  Yves Giroux says his office analyzed the cost of processing applications for economic immigrants through the express entry system for five fiscal years.

  Canada

  Mar 7, 2023
• Canada’s immigration minister heads to Washington amid high scrutiny of border crossings

  The federal Liberal government is under mounting pressure to do something about the flow of undocumented migrants into Canada from the U.S.

  Canada

  Mar 7, 2023
• Poilievre mum on Tory MP’s ‘illegal refugees’ comment, calls for Roxham Road closure

  Thousands of asylum-seekers have entered the country between official ports of entry in recent years and then made refugee claims once in Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 10, 2023
• Asylum seekers can use Quebec’s Roxham Road crossing as pandemic ban lifted

  The federal government ordered the crossing shut in March 2020 as the pandemic closed the U.S.-Canada border, but as of Sunday the order has been lifted.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2021
• Trial of U.S. man accused of helping migrants enter B.C. delayed by constitutional challenge

  The owner of the Smuggler's Inn in Blaine, Wash. is accused of helping seven people illegally enter Canada between 2018 and 2019.

  Crime

  Sep 17, 2020
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• Nigerian sex offender who came to Canada via Roxham Road fights extradition to U.S.

  Adesanya Prince remains in detention at a Canada Border Services Agency facility north of Montreal.

  Politics

  Oct 29, 2019
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• Less than 900 ‘irregular’ asylum seekers removed from Canada since 2017 surge

  Since early 2017, more than 45,000 migrants have arrived in Canada irregularly by entering the country mainly through a forest path between New York State and Quebec, avoiding official border checkpoints where they would be turned away and told to file refugee claims in the United States.

  Canada

  Jun 28, 2019