Migrant found dead at Quebec’s Roxham Road border crossing | 24CA News
A person was discovered lifeless on Wednesday at Roxham Road, a standard passage between the United States and Canada utilized by migrants to say asylum.
The man was a migrant who was making an attempt to cross the unofficial border, in line with info obtained by Radio-Canada.
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ), Quebec’s provincial police power, confirmed the dying on Thursday morning. The circumstances of the dying stay unclear.
“We will investigate the causes of death, it will take some time,” an SQ spokesperson stated.
The SQ confirmed the physique of the person was found on Wednesday afternoon between Roxham Road and the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing, about 5 kilometres away.
His nationality is unknown.
Roxham Road is an unofficial border crossing that straddles the Canadian-American border between Quebec and the state of New York.
According to the federal authorities, 45,250 asylum seekers arrived in Quebec between January and November 2022 — way over in 2021, when 7,290 would-be refugees entered the nation via the province.
Quebec Premier François Legault has stated the province is unable to maintain up with the quantity of refugee claimants crossing at Roxham Road. In May 2022, Quebec requested the federal authorities to shut the unofficial border crossing.
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In 2017 an unprecedented variety of folks have been crossing into Canada illegally from the United States at Roxham Road to say asylum. And in simply two years, about 50,000 migrants have entered Canada via this unofficial entry level. Today on Front Burner, CBC’s Susan Ormiston returns to Roxham Road to unpack the way it turned internationally generally known as a de facto border crossing for these searching for refugee standing in Canada.
Migrants have died earlier than whereas making an attempt to cross the border. In 2019, a person from the Dominican Republic was discovered lifeless in Canada close to Roxham Road, the Washington Post reported. In January 2022, the our bodies of 4 Indian migrants have been present in Manitoba close to the U.S. border.
