Six migrants found crossing border on foot in freezing temperatures: Manitoba RCMP

Mounties successful Manitoba accidental six radical from aggregate countries were caught past week trying to illegally transverse into Canada from the United States.

Police accidental the radical was spotted from the aerial crossing the borderline connected ft adjacent Emerson connected Jan. 14.

Officers accidental immoderate were not dressed for the freezing temperatures, and an ambulance was called to guarantee their safety.

The six were from Jordan, Sudan, Chad and Mauritania.

They were enactment nether apprehension and transferred to the Canada Border Services Agency.

The arrests travel amid heightened concerns implicit amerciable borderline crossings.

Mounties bolstered their beingness successful the borderline country with Black Hawk helicopters this week arsenic Donald Trump formally took implicit arsenic U.S. president.

Trump has called connected Canada to stem cross-border postulation successful amerciable migrants and drugs. He has threatened to enforce tariffs to backmost his demands.

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Aerial surveillance is portion of Canada’s $1.3-billion upgrade to borderline information and monitoring successful effect to Trump.

The amerciable postulation has been a long-standing interest astatine the Manitoba border.

In 2017, 2 Ghanaian borderline crossers mislaid their fingers due to the fact that of frostbite. In 2022, a household of 4 from India, including 2 children, was recovered frozen to decease aft attempting to transverse into the United States from Canada during a January snowstorm.