Border visit january 28, 2018

Sunday, January 28th,  2018.  3.45pm - 5.30 pm.  Roxham Road, Champlain, USA.    
​About 21 people crossed into Canada today.  The weather was mild for winter,  but some people were not adequately dressed and were grateful for some warm things.   Four individual young men crossed; they were from Burundi, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo.  A 15 year old Haitian boy crossed on his own, wanting to join his mother in Montreal and an officer spoke to him in Creole. Several families also crossed over:  a Syrian family of five, a Nigerian family of five including a grandmother and a family of four of sub-Saharan African origin, and finally a single mother with a teenage boy. In all cases the RCMP officers asked the asylum seekers whether they had family in Canada, and repeated numerous times that people should go to the Lacolle border crossing.