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On this blog, we used to post information about our visits to the border at Roxham Road, USA side.
Since the closure of Roxham Road on Friday 24 March 2023, we're attempting to keep a log of the info we have about refugees who have been returned to the US.

Sur ce blogue, nous avons affiché des informations sur nos visites à la frontière, Roxham Road, États Unis. Depuis la fermeture de Roxham Road le vendredi 24 mars 2023, nous essayons de tenir un répertoire des informations que nous avons cueillies sur les réfugiés qui ont été renvoyés aux États-Unis.
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1/6/2023

Border visit 25 December 2022

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I arrived at the border about 2.45pm. The border agent was the younger one from the previous week. He immediately asked where the ''other person'' was who had been with me last Sunday. He continued with the same questions as he had the previous week and went through the trunk and the back seat. After consulting with a person inside the building he let me drive on.

I waited at Roxham Road for about 30 minutes when a taxi arrived with two men. Both of them were extremely scared, did not speak English, but said that they were from Turkey. They did not need hats or mittens but had almost no luggage. They stood at the border for a long time while an RCMP officer gave his usual speech. It was obvious that the men did not speak English. When they were finally on Canadian soil, the officer said that he did not speak Turkish and insisted that they needed to speak English because he knew that they could. He was very rough.

About 30 minutes later a private car arrived. A man  brought another man, both were from Bangladesh. The driver said that he did not know the other person, he was just dropping him off. The passenger was well dressed, had a suitcase and went across without hesitation.
I left at about 4.30pm.

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    The earlier border visit reports were written by the volunteers who were at the border on that day, the later updates about the situation in the US are an attempt to keep a log of what we find out through our own visits in the US, or through contacts in the US.
    ​Les rapports de nos visites à la frontière et de l'information qu'on a pu collecter sur la situation aux États-Unis sont rédigés par les bénévoles qui étaient à la frontière ou aux É-U. Nous sommes désolés de ne pas avoir les ressources pour traduire ces rapports en français.

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  • Home
  • About
  • Quant a
  • Info 1
    • Info for Refugees >
      • Before you travel
      • Safe Third Country Agreement
      • Roxham Road: Update
      • UNHCR info sheets
    • Info pour réfugiés >
      • Avant de partir
      • Entente sur les tiers pays surs
      • Chemin Roxham : mise à jour
      • Fiches info HCR
    • Info para refugiados >
      • Antes de viajar
      • Acuerdo de tercer país seguro
      • Roxham Road: actualizacion
      • Fichas info del ACNUR
    • Info in Arabic
    • Info in Kreyól
  • Info 2
    • STCA
    • ETPS
    • Refugees: Myths and Facts
    • Refugiés : mythes et faits
    • Who?
    • Qui ?
    • Why?
    • Pourquoi ?
  • News
    • Media
  • Nouvelles
    • Médias
  • Blog
  • What?
  • Quoi ?
  • Links / Liens
  • Contact