Irregular Border Crossing

• 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
  
• 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
  
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• 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
• 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
• Asked about migrant surge, Bill Blair says ‘overwhelming majority of those people have left’

  Border Security Minister Bill Blair says most of the people who arrived in a surge of migrants last year have left.

  Canada

  Sep 23, 2018