Matrix Dragon Wrote:... That said, what do we know about the people that have made the trip? Are we talking about minorities that feel they're at risk, lower income individuals, or something similar?Here's a story about two of those people - the only personal story I can find in a quick search, as opposed to stories about statistics. They sought refugee status in the USA, were denied, but had not yet been sent back to Somalia. They were so afraid that the Trump administration would send them back to a war zone that they walked across the border to Canada - losing their fingers to frostbite in the process.
http:////www.bbc.com/news/av/embed
So, at least in this case, it's "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" who are making the trip.
EDIT: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/index.asp, and thus do not need to cross the border illegally.
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
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