Nine people flee U.S. border patrol to seek asylum in Canada

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Poor suckers have to learn metric now.

If they are already illegal in the US, they already know it.

 

[Rustic]

I find it sad that there are people FLEEING the U.S. in fear. But I agree with Billy (for once) that it was quite the coincidental photo op.

The people "in fear" are confused...

 

[Smedley VonBuren]

I would say that this is a good start, but unfortunately, this does not seem to be precedent setting

hope springs eternal though...

LINK to Reuters article

quote:
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.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers assist a child from a family that claimed to be from Sudan as they walk across the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Canada, from Champlain in New York. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

Good riddance