A police operation is underway in the municipalities of Godmanchester and Elgin, near the Canadian-American border, in order to find three migrants, a woman and two children.
In the afternoon, Thursday, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) had taken over from the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie (RCMP) in this file and tried to find a woman accompanied by two young children, according to the first information available.
The GRC had launched the research shortly after midnight, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, after having arrested two men and a woman; Migrants who had tried to illegally enter Canada.
During the interviews they conducted with these three arrested people, the agents of the GRC understood that three others lacked the call, a woman and two children.
He appears that the six migrants crossed the Canadian-American border on foot.
It always worries us
The director general of the municipality of Elgin, Guylaine Carrière, finds deplorable
that migrants try to illegally cross the border. It always worries us
she recognized.
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-These passages of illegal immigrants often occur at night, and sometimes it is citizens who warn the municipality. The Director General claims that these situations are then reported to the GRC. As a municipality, we have neither the capacities nor the resources to do much for them
said Ms. Carrière.
Admittedly, since the start of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, this kind of situation has happened more and more often
she continues, But it has always been
.
In the municipalities of Godmanchester and Elgin, there is not, strictly speaking, a path similar to the sad Roxham path (which is less than an hour by car – and at 1 pm of walking – of Godmanchester).
Despite everything, the frequent migrant passages pushed the municipality of Elgin to adopt resolutions and write to the deputy, to the government … without too many effects: It’s long
concludes Ms. Career by sighing.
With information from Karine Bastien and Stephen Rukavina
