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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Id be all for a bullet train from tiajunna to vancover bc if we can get mexico and canada to pay for it
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?
I don’t understand. They should just go to a Canadian embassy. The Canadians love refugees, no?
No, we don’t.
Force of habit?
WINNING
Neither the USA nor Canada will be diminished by any of those fools seeking “asylum” who drown in the Red River.
Mexico doesn't want them and Mexico enforces their border.
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).
Excuse me whilst I clutch my pearls to my heaving breast.....
The Reuters reporting crew accompanying them wants a story.
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..
“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.”
Keep going, Allah will provide.
Welcome to Waterville, bitches!
LOL! Nice try, Rooter Tooters. “Climate Change” is a LIE!!!
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.
Maybe they should build a wall.
Dangerous Moose?
If a Moose has Diarrhea, is that Mooslime?
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.
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