Posted on 02/18/2017 10:01:23 AM PST by SkyPilot
Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.
As a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.
One by one they scrambled across the snowy gully separating the two countries. RCMP officers watching from the other side helped them up, lifting the younger children and asking a woman, who leaned on her fellow passenger as she walked, if she needed medical care.
The children looked back from where they had come as the U.S. officer held the first man, saying his papers needed to be verified.
The man turned to a pile of belongings and heaved pieces of luggage two at a time into the gully -- enormous wheeled suitcases, plastic shopping bags, a black backpack.
"Nobody cares about us," he told journalists. He said they were all from Sudan and had been living and working in Delaware for two years.
The RCMP declined on Friday to confirm the nationalities of the people. A Reuters photo showed that at least one of their passports was Sudanese.
The man then appeared to grab their passports from the U.S. officer before making a run for the border. The officer yelled and gave chase but stopped at the border marker. Canadian police took hold of the man's arm as he crossed.
The border patrol officer told his counterpart that the man was in the United States illegally...
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Why are we trying to stop them? Let Canada have them.
Why do these numbskulls take taxis? Do they get a Muslim discount? Anyhow, bus tickets are cheap - https://trailwaysny.com/bus-from-montreal-to-new-york-city/#
If it happened without the press preset it would be suspicious. With the press conveniently there it looks like a set up.
Nooo !
No more radical muslims and left wing kooks !
We are full !
Mounties just happened to be around, too.
My feelings exactly! A reporter just happened to be there!
LOL, the poor RCMP are going to have to fill out the paperwork now!
“Why are Africans that have asylum in the US running to Canada for asylum ? Send them back to Africa”
Let Canada send them back to Africa.
The Reuters writer said that people were “pouring over the Canadian border” to avoid deportation by the U.S.
Since when is 8 people a “pouring”? Haven’t heard of any other “pourings” since the rains near Oroville, Calif. Did I miss something.
“Pouring” over the border is when you had over 900,000 Vietnamese flee Ho’s North Vietnam in 1954.
“Pouring” is when tens of thousands of Tibetanese fled into India to avoid being slaughtered by invading Red Chinese troops in the 1950’s, esp. 1959.
“Pouring” is when hundreds of thousands of Iraqis flee ISIS; hundreds of thousands of Syrians flee ISIS, the Iranians, the Syrian Army, Hezbollah troops in Syria; and tens of thousands of Nigerians, mainly Christians but also some moderate Moslems flee their Boko Harum burned down towns and cities.
This Reuters reporter should be sent back to journalism school to learn how to write correctly. OH WAIT. That’s probably where she learned to write this crap. NEVER MIND!
Canada’s problem now. For Canada’s sake, I hope we never hear a bad word about them ever again.
I doubt Trump really wants illegals to just run over to Canada—or direct them there. I’m sure he’d rather just send them back to their country of origin and tell ‘em to come back or go wherever legally.
Yeah, America is full of meanies just because we want to secure our borders as stringently as everyone else does their own.
yup, good riddance. we should send them all to liberal Canada- it’ll be cheaper than plane rides to the Middle East.
I doubt Trump really wants illegals to just run over to Canada— I am willing to bet that Trumps team for saw this possibility- Canada will need to either back Trump or suffer the fate that America has endured for last 30 or 40 yrs.
Give it two weeks and Canada will stop accepting aliens from the South.
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