Car Seats: Refugee Tale and Trumpian Twist

car seats: They are fleeing war, despots and persecution in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere for a better life in Canada, according to Toronto Star. It is a classic refugee tale with a Trumpian twist that has asylum seekers fleeing the land of liberty in fear of deportation, or using easy-to-obtain American tourist visas only to reach the northern beacon across the border. Allan Woods / Toronto Star By Allan Woods Quebec Bureau Sun., April 2, 2017 MONTREAL They arrive with bulging suitcases, carrying infants in car seats, often with little more than a backpack and a shaky grasp of the language and the land. In the first two months of 2017, more than 1,100 people had arrived not by presenting themselves to border officers at a controlled crossing, but by entering the country on foot through a breach in the Canada-United States border to avoid forcible return under Canadian law. Upon entry, they are arrested and shackled first by awaiting Mounties, then processed and placed into what is becoming an increasingly burdened system. According to the Canada Border Services Agency, Quebec accounted for nearly 700 of the total cases in which the RCMP intercepted irregular asylum seekers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.