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‘Trump was going to deport me’: Migrants are losing fingers to frostbite while fleeing to Canada
National Post ^ | Feb. 11, 2017 | Catherine Porter, Dan Levin, Ian Austen - NY Times

Posted on 02/11/2017 7:26:19 PM PST by rickmichaels

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Almost three months after Bashir Yussuf watched Donald Trump win the presidential election, he made his way to Noyes, Minnesota, where he set off at night into the snow-filled woods and crawled across the unmarked border into Canada.

“I saw what was coming,” said Yussef, 28, who fled his home in Somalia in 2013 to make a circuitous, five-month voyage to San Diego, where he applied for asylum but was rejected. “I knew Trump was going to deport me.”

After a three-hour walk, much of it through deep drifts, Yussuf arrived in Emerson, a small farming town in sight of the snow-swept border with both North Dakota and Minnesota.

Emerson’s 700 inhabitants have long known “border hoppers,” often offering them lifts to the nearby Canadian Border Services Agency office. But they have never seen them coming in these numbers.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aliens; canada; fakenews; rop
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1 posted on 02/11/2017 7:26:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

More winning.


2 posted on 02/11/2017 7:28:22 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: rickmichaels

Pretty bad when they are reprinting the Slimes’ fakenews.


3 posted on 02/11/2017 7:28:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: rickmichaels

Go luck, Canada, you’ll need it.


4 posted on 02/11/2017 7:28:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: rickmichaels

Sheeeyit. I’ve been working for 40 years and I can’t even afford to make a circuitous 5 month voyage to San Diego.


5 posted on 02/11/2017 7:28:41 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals w.ould have no standtairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rickmichaels
That's President Trump to you, Yussef
6 posted on 02/11/2017 7:29:03 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: rickmichaels

Can’t you come up with a better lie? I thought Muzzies were supposed to be “professional” liars...


7 posted on 02/11/2017 7:29:11 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: rickmichaels

Not crying about people who stamp all over our imkigration laws and believe they are entitled to do so, crying that we are enforcing them.

Let Canada adore these folks.

Note they go anywhere but home. They wont fix their own country so its liveable, they just leech and damage other places.


8 posted on 02/11/2017 7:29:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rickmichaels

Lucky for him Canadia has an awesome health care system.


9 posted on 02/11/2017 7:29:49 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals w.ould have no standtairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Boo. Frickin. Hoo.


10 posted on 02/11/2017 7:30:22 PM PST by Trentamj
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To: rickmichaels

So stay home. Make your home country what you want it to be.


11 posted on 02/11/2017 7:30:52 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: rickmichaels

Should have snuck into Keith Ellison’s garage instead.


12 posted on 02/11/2017 7:32:21 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m not even close to being sick and tired of all this winning.


13 posted on 02/11/2017 7:32:30 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: rickmichaels

Bring me my fainting chair and fetch my clutching pearls.


14 posted on 02/11/2017 7:32:33 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: rickmichaels

Maybe he should have gone for Mexico instead of Canada. He wouldn’t have gotten frostbite.


15 posted on 02/11/2017 7:32:36 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rickmichaels

Rather than risk the cold of Canada he could have escaped to sunny Mexico. I wonder why he didn’t do that.


16 posted on 02/11/2017 7:32:38 PM PST by Entropy Squared (The Rush to Chaos)
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His asylum request was rejected 4 years ago but he's just now leaving the country?

Color me skeptical buy my spidey senses tell me there's more to this story than meets the eye.

17 posted on 02/11/2017 7:33:01 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals w.ould have no standtairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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... he set off at night into the snow-filled woods and crawled across the unmarked border into Canada.

Talk about a WHOPPER.


18 posted on 02/11/2017 7:33:21 PM PST by McGruff (Drain The Swamp)
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To: Entropy Squared

BENEFITS. We’re particularly generous (stupid) up here.


19 posted on 02/11/2017 7:34:12 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: rickmichaels

Three authors clamoring to get a piece of the #fakenews pie.

also, migrants fleeing? why would they flee? what are they running from? /rhetorical


20 posted on 02/11/2017 7:35:00 PM PST by Eddie01 (It's 13 deg. f out and I want ice cream)
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