Posted on 02/09/2025 2:58:07 PM PST by Libloather
More than a dozen ill-prepared migrants, including five children, were caught trying to illegally cross into Canada in below-freezing weather that could have claimed their lives, officials said.
Alberta police intercepted four adults and five children from Venezuela who were trudging their suitcases through the snow in bone-chilling temperatures of minus-22 degrees Fahrenheit, The Guardian reports.
Canadian Police Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland told reporters the group was found struggling in the snow and “incredibly cold” weather, which put their lives at risk.
A second group of migrants — made up of six adults from Jordan, Sudan, Chad, and Mauritius — was located in a dense forest near Manitoba’s border.
Officials were able to locate the group in the frigid weather thanks to thermal cameras equipped on police planes flying over the forest.
Moreland said that in both cases, the migrants were wearing clothes ill-suited to the deadly cold temperatures in the region — as she called on migrants to avoid making such dangerous treks across the border because they often end in tragedy.
“There’s the cross-border piece, but also the humanity piece,” Moreland said of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s work surveilling the border. “[There have been] incidents where people did not make it.
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LOL.
Oh, so Canadian police stop illegals from entering Canada? Interesting idea!
“What, exactly, do the Royal Canadian PoPo mount these days?”
Each other. When that gets tiring goats and sheep.
You mean Canada enforces its borders? What a novel idea.
The Canadians are more humane than Biden and the Democrats.
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