border visit january 21, 2018

Sunday, January 21st,  2018.  3.45pm - 5 pm.  Roxham Road, Champlain, USA.    
A mild day. A total of eleven people crossed today. First came a young woman, Nigerian,  with her baby who had been born in the USA.  She was able to cross quickly into Canada. Then came a van with two families, 4 adults and three children.  Finally there arrived a woman and her teenage son from Columbia who spoke very little English.  During the second and third crossings, the  RCMP officer  asked people a number of questions including whether they have family in Canada and encouraged people to go to the Lacolle border crossing.  The taxi driver had confirmed to the officer that the woman from Columbia spoke very little English but the officer continued to ask her questions.   Afterwards the taxi driver told us that he had been threatened with arrest by an RCMP officer recently.