Eric Schneiderman: u.s.-Canada Border

eric schneiderman: It's no secret that we've seen intense fear in immigrant communities across New York in recent months, according to Huffington Post Canada. To take advantage of that fear for financial gain is simply unconscionable, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement. The cab companies were alleged to have charged as much as US 300 to transport people fleeing to Canada from Plattsburgh, N.Y., to the Canadian border normally a US 50 to US 75 ride. Unfortunately, frightened and desperate people are the number one target of scammers. A U.S. border agent questions two families that arrived in a taxi to cross the U.S.-Canada border near Hemmingford, Que., on Feb. 17. Schneiderman said an undercover investigator from the attorney general's office was dropped off at Plattsburgh's inter-city bus station, where she handed a cabbie from Northern Taxi a note saying she wanted to go to a place where people are able to walk across the border. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.