(Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers talk to refugees as they arrive at the now-closed Roxham Road border crossing near Champlain, New York, last year © Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images)
The number of migrants caught trying to cross from Canada into the US jumped from 27,180 in 2021 to 198,929 in 2024 — a rise of almost 600 per cent — according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
by Ilya Gridness
February 3, 2025
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Canada’s government is to bolster its investment in border security after Donald Trump threatened to impose steep tariffs over illegal immigration and drug smuggling across the US-Canada frontier. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Canada’s provincial leaders late on Wednesday to agree a united response to the US president-elect’s pledge this week to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada, which he said would remain in place “until such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country”.
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