AVIS: NOS VISITES À ROXHAM ROAD SONT TEMPORAIREMENT SUSPENDUES EN RAISON DE LA FERMETURE DE LA FRONTIÈRE. VOIR NOTRE DÉCLARATION ICI. NOTICE: VISITS TO ROXHAM ROAD ARE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED DUE TO THE BORDER CLOSURE SEE OUR STATEMENT HERE On this blog page, we are posting information about our visits to the border at Roxham Road, USA side. For more information about the purpose of these visits go to the news page. We have also started to post our newsletters on the blog. Sur ce blogue, nous affichons des informations sur nos visites à la frontière, Roxham Road, États Unis. Pour plus d'info sur le but de ces visites allez sur la page nouvelles.Aussi, nous avons commencé à poster nos infolettres sur le blogue. |
A beautiful sunny late summer day. We visited the border together with Nichola Feldman-Kiss, an artist from Toronto who is doing an art project on borders and asylum seekers. We arrived at 2.30 pm and stayed until 5pm (Nichola stayed longer).
Just after our arrival, a middle-aged woman and two young adults -- possibly mother, daughter and son -- arrived by taxi, all three from Haiti. Later came a woman with young children, two boys and a girl, from Nigeria. Thanks to one of our volunteers, we now have knitted finger puppets in all sorts of colors and patterns to give to children, so they were happy to choose one they liked. The third taxi brought a very friendly young man from Ghana who had lived in Columbus, Ohio, for the past three years. He had six or seven bags and suitcases, far more than he could carry across in one go. Having lined up all his luggage, he stood there for about 10 minutes, hesitating, before finally crossing over. The RCMP officer who was there told him he could go back and forth to get all his belongings, and even took two bags himself.
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