border visit august 11 2019

Sunday, August 11th, 2019. Afternoon at Roxham Road, USA.

A busy afternoon. In total 15  refugees crossed into Canada during the afternoon: 9 adults and 6 children.  They came in four taxis. As well we had two visitors from SUNY Plattsburgh University.

The first tax brought 3 women: a young woman from Nigeria and an older woman with an adult daughter from Rwanda. They all spoke English.

Soon afterwards a second taxi arrived bringing a couple with three children from an African country.  The children were 2 boys around 12 and 8 years old and a girl aged about 4 years old. They spoke English.  As they were entering the RCMP building we heard someone ask if only the girl had been born in the USA. So it would appear they had been living in the USA for a while.

Another City Taxi arrived bearing 4 people from the Democratic Republic of Congo:  a mother with three children : 2 boys about 15 and 11 years old and a girl, maybe 8 or 9.  Mother and daughter were tearfully emotional. Once again we thought we heard the RCMP officers clarifying who was born in the USA. 

 The last taxi brought three adults from Nigeria: a couple (man and woman) and a lone woman.  They crossed over quickly.

Everyone crossed without incident and the RCMP respected their protocol.