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Melting snow new danger for those fleeing to Canada from U.S.
reuters ^ | Feb 27, 2017 | Rod Nickel | WINNIPEG, Manitoba

Posted on 02/27/2017 4:43:47 PM PST by mdittmar

Asylum seekers crossing in the dead of night into Canada from the United States may face a new danger in coming weeks, as heavy snowpack melts in the flood-prone U.S. northern plains and province of Manitoba.

The western Canadian province on Monday said the Red River, which runs from North Dakota and Minnesota north into Canada, poses a major flood risk this spring.

Floodwaters that spread over land will make fields hard to navigate in the dark, said Bill Spanjer, emergency coordinator for the Rural Municipality of Emerson-Franklin, Manitoba, where 143 people have crossed illegally since Jan. 1, according to police, after 32 made the trip in December.

"Imagine gumbo and water," Spanjer said. "It would make even rescues difficult."

The exodus is partly out of concern they will be deported under U.S. President Donald Trump, whose crackdown on illegal migrants and travel restrictions against some Muslim-majority countries have alarmed asylum seekers.

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To: mdittmar

Id be all for a bullet train from tiajunna to vancover bc if we can get mexico and canada to pay for it


21 posted on 02/27/2017 4:57:32 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: mdittmar

The US generally does not check who is leaving the country to drive into Canada. They can but usually do not. At least, that was true a couple weeks ago on I-91 in Vermont. And the Canadians are not turning away asylum seekers. So..... why are these people trying to sneak into Canada when they could freely walk or drive into it?


22 posted on 02/27/2017 5:01:10 PM PST by Stingray51
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To: mdittmar

I don’t understand. They should just go to a Canadian embassy. The Canadians love refugees, no?


23 posted on 02/27/2017 5:01:18 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: rightwingcrazy

No, we don’t.


24 posted on 02/27/2017 5:05:33 PM PST by rickmichaels (I shouldn't have to press 1 for English)
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To: Stingray51
So..... why are these people trying to sneak into Canada when they could freely walk or drive into it?

Force of habit?

25 posted on 02/27/2017 5:06:00 PM PST by Wissa (Check out pussyhat.com)
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To: mdittmar

WINNING


26 posted on 02/27/2017 5:06:30 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: mdittmar

Neither the USA nor Canada will be diminished by any of those fools seeking “asylum” who drown in the Red River.


27 posted on 02/27/2017 5:06:56 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: ClearCase_guy
Maybe they should flee to Mexico. Perhaps that would be safer.

Mexico doesn't want them and Mexico enforces their border.

28 posted on 02/27/2017 5:07:57 PM PST by Drew68
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To: mdittmar

It will take about 32,000 years just for the illegals from Mexico to clear out of the US at this rate (143 in 8 weeks).


29 posted on 02/27/2017 5:09:11 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
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To: mdittmar

Excuse me whilst I clutch my pearls to my heaving breast.....


30 posted on 02/27/2017 5:09:20 PM PST by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Stingray51
So..... why are these people trying to sneak into Canada when they could freely walk or drive into it?

The Reuters reporting crew accompanying them wants a story.

31 posted on 02/27/2017 5:09:21 PM PST by Drew68
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To: mdittmar

We could use those old circus cannon’s they used to shoot people out of.. We just load them up and shoot them across the border..


32 posted on 02/27/2017 5:13:11 PM PST by Davy Crocket
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To: mdittmar

“Wal, Mas’r, I saw her, with my own eyes, a crossin’ on the floatin’ ice. She crossed most ‘markably; it wasn’t no less nor a miracle; and I saw a man help her up the Can’da side, and then she was lost in the dusk.”


33 posted on 02/27/2017 5:14:06 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: mdittmar

Keep going, Allah will provide.


34 posted on 02/27/2017 5:15:41 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: mdittmar

Welcome to Waterville, bitches!


35 posted on 02/27/2017 5:16:16 PM PST by W. (How sweet it is to say "Former President 0bama!")
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To: mdittmar

LOL! Nice try, Rooter Tooters. “Climate Change” is a LIE!!!


36 posted on 02/27/2017 5:17:42 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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To: hinckley buzzard; mdittmar
I suspect that whatever enthusiasm the locals have for the poor beleaguered "undocumented immigrants" will soon wear thin enough, once they get an taste of what is coming across.

It was the Prime Minister of Canada making a grand statement who was responsible. On hearing of the American President and his determination re illegals, he said it was open doors to "refugees".

FWIW. This hard working class community of Emerson, Manitoba is about 700 folks. They were blind sided by the do good, diversity advocates of the Canadian news media. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation set up "chance encounters" with some poor half frozen person in the snow. This just from the American border.

No help from the Canadian Government yet. The big city of Winnipeg giving some aid. The Mayor and his aide, the Reeve of Emerson have held emergency meetings. They are absolutely overwhelmed and all accommodations filled. These ordinary folks just got swamped. Minding their own business and now this. The press walks away, caring nothing for the aftermath.

I hope you will excuse this rant. I just had to inform our Freeper friends just how it is.

37 posted on 02/27/2017 5:18:28 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: mdittmar

Maybe they should build a wall.


38 posted on 02/27/2017 5:18:39 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: mdittmar

Dangerous Moose?

If a Moose has Diarrhea, is that Mooslime?


39 posted on 02/27/2017 5:21:24 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: dsrtsage

Well...all of the Canucks I know are shooters...kind of feel bad for them. Luckily they live out in the sticks...snowflakes wouldn’t last long.


40 posted on 02/27/2017 5:22:10 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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