The number of asylum seekers stranded at the border after trying to reach Canada has overwhelmed the resources of volunteers who used to hand out snacks and warm clothing at the end of Roxham Road. Photo: Elizabeth Hewitt
Dec 30, 2020 — When Canada and the U.S. restricted travel across the border this spring, Canada also began turning back asylum seekers who tried to cross from the United States into Canada on foot, many of them at a dead-end road in northern Clinton County.
Yesterday, NCPR reported that some of those asylum-seekers Canadian police have returned to US border officers have ended up in U.S. immigration detention facilities, and even deported to the country they were fleeing. Those border agents have chosen to release others.