[Stingray51]

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?

[Wissa]

So..... why are these people trying to sneak into Canada when they could freely walk or drive into it?

Force of habit?

[Drew68]

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.

[jjsheridan5]

Raises an interesting question: who are they hiding from? Is it the evil Americans (now that evil Trump has risen to power)? But don't the Americans want these people gone? Why would Americans care if they are fleeing? And if it is not the Americans, it must be the Canadians. But the Canadians are the good guys. Aren't they? The Canadians aren't led by Trump. They aren't racist. Why would they be stopping people from crossing into their country?

This just seems like a case of basic cognitive dissonance. If the Canadians are trying to stop them, they are displaying a Trumpian level of racist hatred. Why is that not the story here? And if it the Americans trying to stop them, then that raises the question of why we would be preventing foreign non-white people from leaving. Shouldn't that be the story here? No, Reuters simply assumes that the reader is ignorant, and will simply go along with their blatant emotional manipulation.