Posted on 02/05/2017 3:36:08 PM PST by Drew68
The men pay hundreds of dollars for middle-of-the-night cab rides north to the Canadian border. They wade into the Red River to dodge border agents in summer and trudge through waist-deep snow in winter. On Christmas Eve, two wandered in the wind-swept flatness and lost their fingers to frostbite.
Minnesota has become a key stop for a soaring number of migrants from Somalia and other African countries who sneak into Canada to seek asylum. More than 430 arrived in Winnipeg since April, up from 70 three years ago. Most come by way of Minneapolis, sometimes after grueling treks across Latin America and stints in U.S. immigration detention.
The exodus is now coinciding with new steps by the Trump White House to restrict immigrant and refugee entry — policies expected to spur even more crossings.
“I was used to people coming north into the U.S.,” said Scott Webster, deputy agent in charge at the U.S. Border Patrol’s Pembina, N.D., station and a veteran of the border with Mexico. “Now, they are still going north, but heading out of the U.S.”
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Kinda makes you feel like you are encroaching on their territory.
Who, in the hell hole that is Somalia, has hundreds of dollars for cab rides from Mpls to Canada, and $10k for smugglers to get them to the US? Only currently in power big wigs or currently out of power former big wigs. That kind of loot would have made the very rich in Somalia, not the miserably poor the left would have us think we’re rescuing. Either that or they’ve been funded by third parties who’d rather send a relatively small number of Somalis here than help a much larger number there, where their dollars would have gone much further.
Have they considered a wall ?
News flash—
Mexican invaders require no passport, visa, or other quaint documentation. You are confused. All the phony paper is available on almost any American street corner-—not that most would bother.
Fine with me if the illegal and undocumented invaders make for all points north!
True
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