Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle: a new wave of migrants to the border

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QMI agency

Saturday, September 2, 2017 18:19

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Saturday, 2 September 2017 19:42

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SAINT-BERNARD-DE-LACOLLE | The flow of migrants at the border is increasing, but it is no longer that of haitian migrants, as at the beginning of the crisis. As the learned VAT News, they are now migrants from other Latin American arriving in Canada.

“Currently, the haitian community represents 25 % of asylum seekers who enter the country. We also see people from different places, of Honduras, some of the countries of Latin America,” said Jean-Pierre Fortin, president of the Union of customs and immigration.

So that at the end of August there were less than 100 people trying to cross the border on a daily basis, on 31 August and 1 September, there were more than 150 people per day.

The u.s. government is currently studying the temporary residence of the citizens of nine other countries, such as Sudan, Syria, or el Salvador.

A new wave of migrants would therefore not be surprising, according to Stéphane Handfield, a lawyer specializing in immigration.

Border services Agency told TVA News not to have noticed the growth of flows of migrants. She said that she was however ready to cope with variations in number and regardless of the nationality of the nationals.