Nine people flee US border patrol to seek asylum in Canada

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



17 FEB 2017 AT 18:11 ET

Nine 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.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/nine-people-flee-us-border-patrol-to-seek-asylum-in-canada/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Nine more join the Free World, escaping the Turd Reich. Sorry, that's way over the top but

That phrasing is way over the top, but that is what it is beginning to feel like.

[El Mimbreno]

7. A turd is a turd - call it as you see it, ump.

Wanted to add a pic here, but maybe things don't work that way.

[heaven05]

18. HEAR! HEAR!

nothing is over the top when it's the god awful truth....call it the way it is...a lot of us, I think, will be boarding a new 'Underground Railroad' to Canada, again.

[malchickiwick]

19. Turd Reich!! I freaking LOVE it!!

Absolutely great. Thank you. And, no, not over the top in my mind.

[Blue Idaho]

2. Oh Canada!

Well done!

[itsrobert]

3. The trail of tears

history repeats

[starshine00]

9. I'm bawling myself

this was such a close call, what a read. They had one man detained so he threw all their belongings across the border. Then he grabbed their passports and made a break for it. And made it across. I can't believe this is my country they are fleeing from like this. They'd been here two years, good for them for getting out and not waiting for the knock on the door. God bless them, I hope Canada treats them well. What a shitshow Trump has turned the US into .

[Hortensis]

26. It has me crying, but that last man may have been allowed

allowed to run to join his family. He was "detained" yet was allowed to throw their luggage toward Canada into the ravine, and then he was somehow able to grab his own papers and run into Canada.

Whatever actually happened, that same officer then carried the rest of their belongings, including a stroller, to the border so the family would have them in Canada. Not a villain.

America, America...

[Demsrule86]

32. That poor Customs guy no doubt is looking for work today.

[Hortensis]

34. Not necessarily. Judgement's a part of the job, including

saving the nation hundreds of thousands of dollars processing this person and fighting lawsuits and months of embarrassment as this man's fate is played out in the media. Having the AP, or whomever, report it around the planet doesn't help, of course.

[Demsrule86]

38. I hope so...Trump is so evil.

[Hortensis]

39. Yes, but imo evil-lite, his manipulators far worse.

Trumpie's a fraction of a man who wants to be loved and admired and to feel powerful by screwing over others, but ultimately it's all about him. Best I can tell from reading about personality disorders, he simply can't care about others, and I'm not sure he's capable of comprehending, much less caring about, the costs to others. Empty holes where empathy and compassion are in normal people.

POTUS.

[Demsrule86]

40. I agree with that assesment.

But such people get fixated on an idea such as the final solution...and cause much horror.

[Hortensis]

41. He is clearly potentially very dangerous,

all right. And then there are those followers who've built up years of unfulfilled hostility toward their favorite targets...

Have a nice day.

[W T F]

4. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump will build a wall along the Northern boarder to keep us in.

[Thor_MN]

29. Good luck with that, Donny, it's going to need to be over 800 feet tall

just to reach the surface of Lake Superior in some spots...

[iluvtennis]

5. Love it...so glad the family made it safely to Canada. The shit stain asswipe that purports to ...

...have a heart should be ASHAMED.

[starshine00]

8. I know

this is the only good news I have read in weeks, I really would like to hear more stories like this

[starshine00]

11. here is another story talking about all those trying to cross

they are completely unprepared for this kind of weather and not adequately dressed

"On Christmas Eve, two Ghanaians were picked up on the roadside north of town, some 10 hours after they had set off into a field near the border, sinking to their waists in snow. The temperature that morning was reported to be below zero, with windchill making it even worse. The men’s hands were so badly frostbitten that they lost almost all their fingers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/world/canada/trump-migrants-canada.html?_r=0

[starshine00]

12. more on the Ghanians

what a lesson in gratitude these stories are, I feel guilty for complaining about anything...this is all so heartbreaking

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38960035

[iluvtennis]

16. thank you...reading now nt

[starshine00]

17. one of the Ghanian men is gay

in Ghana he would be executed, this is so heartrending, good interviews by CNN http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/americas/refugees-flee-united-states-for-canada/

[Crash2Parties]

21. Trump & the GOP don't care that deporting LGBT people is a death sentence in those countries

[Demsrule86]

33. Many in Trump and the GOP's camp want the death sentence to be allowed here

For LGBTQ folks.

[Doreen]

6. Thank you Canada.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

10. A Reuters photographer just happened to be there?

Working with the family? Or the Border Patrol?

I wish we knew more.

[displacedtexan]

13. This time of year, you can skate or snowshoe across at

Sault Ste Marie, in the UP of Michigan. Native Americans do it pretty regularly.

[0rganism]

14. El Norte just got 1000 miles further away

and you have to cross a vast banana republic to get there

[EL34x4]

27. As long as you have a passport and a credit card, Canada will welcome travelers from Mexico.

Just don't get too comfortable. You can only visit.

However, if you are educated and highly-skilled, Canada may be interested in allowing you to immigrate. If you are an illiterate farm worker, good luck.

[harun]

15. Help us Canada

[tavernier]

20. Sounds to me as though the officers on our side

weren't being overly aggressive. If they had been trumpy assholes, they would have shot the man and maybe the whole family. In the end, one of the American officers took their belongings over to the border where they were retrieved by the Canadian patrol.

Good to know that at least in this case, their hearts weren't in it. But of course once they are threatened with their jobs, things will change.

[Demsrule86]

31. There were cameras.

[tavernier]

36. Yes, but a trump clone would have happily

killed them and trashed their things, even better in front of a camera to show his idol that he was following orders. Now he'll probably get fired for allowing them to get away and returning their belongings.

[Demsrule86]

37. Very true...hopefully there are more like him.

[malthaussen]

22. And 150 years ago, Canada was the Land of Freedom for slaves...

... the US does not always come off so well in comparison to other countries.

-- Mal

[IronLionZion]

23. Why would the officers stop people from leaving the US?

I'm trying to understand what would be a valid reason to stop them?

Would he prefer to deport them to Sudan because they don't deserve freedom in a western country? Either way, they wouldn't be in the US.

[Fred Sanders]

24. The Statue of Liberty needs to be moved to Canada for safekeeping until the fascists are deposed.

[roamer65]

28. Or bring NY to Canada.

[Kablooie]

25. It's like we are East Berlin.

[Demsrule86]

30. This make me cry...I feel like a fool weeping at my computer...

what has my country become? I hate Trump so much there are no words...he is a monster. It is like people escaping from the Nazis or East Germany.

[Smickey]

35. Unfortunately I think this is just the trickle and.....

the flood is coming. if the 45 admin or this congress does any more to gerrymander or suppress votes the outcome of which is to set up some kind of 1000 year Rep. reich. We are out. With climate change Canada would seem to be a better choice than warmer climes. That said I have not looked into it much.....yet.

The idea that this makes any of our people weep because they forsee where this may be heading, just pisses me off more so still with the fighting at this point for me/us. (he says passport in hand)