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| Subject: Flow of asylum seekers crossing into Canada from U.S. rises in June Sun Jul 23, 2017 1:26 am | |
| The number of asylum seekers walking across the U.S. border into Canada rose in June after dropping in the previous two months, according to government figures released on Friday.
There were 884 refugee claimants who crossed the border between formal crossings and were picked up by Royal Canadian Mounted Police last month, bringing the total for the first half of 2017 to 4,345, the data showed.
The vast majority, 88 percent, of June's crossers went to the province of Quebec, a marked contrast from previous months where upwards of 100 a month went to the prairie province of Manitoba.
Many asylum seekers whom Reuters has spoken to said they left the United States because they feared deportation in light of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/36461844/flow-of-asylum-seekers-crossing-into-canada-from-u-s-rises-in-june/#page1 |
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