Shocking scenes have revealed that desperate migrants are risking their lives in bone-chilling temperatures to attempt to cross into Canada – as officials finally stepped up border security after pressure from Trump.
Canadian police intercepted two separate groups making the risky journey, including five children who were wearing inadequate clothing in the freezing cold that plunged to -22F, as reported by The Guardian.
Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland delivered a chilling warning about the ‘heartbreaking situation’ that could have ended in tragedy.
The first group – nine Venezuelans – were caught dragging suitcases through deep snow, heading for Alberta in what officials called ‘incredibly cold’ conditions.
In a separate incident, thermal cameras spotted six more migrants from Jordan, Sudan, Chad and Mauritius hiding in a Manitoba forest – all wearing clothing that would have offered zero protection against the extreme conditions.
Moreland told reporters that the ‘heartbreaking situation’ is similar to the chilling story of the Patel family – who froze to death in 2022 with their innocent toddler and 11-year-old child.
‘There’s the cross-border piece, but also the humanity piece,’ she old reporters in Edmonton, as reported by the outlet.
Canadian police intercepted two separate groups making the risky journey, including five children who were wearing inadequate clothing in the freezing cold that plunged to -22F
Pictured: The Emerson Port of Entry in Emerson, Manitoba, Canada
‘[There have been] incidents where people did not make it.’
Border crossings skyrocketed from 2,238 to a staggering 23,721 in just two years, with border agents making over a million arrests at the border with Mexico last year.
As a result, President Trump has forced Canada’s hand, securing a massive 900 million spending package.
The eye-watering sum will fund two state-of-the-art Black Hawk helicopters and high-tech surveillance drones.
In Alberta, this would include new 50-strong armed sheriff patrol unit, and cutting-edge drug detection dogs.
But some Canadian migration officials say Trump’s message might be triggering exactly what he’s trying to prevent.
‘What we saw in the days and weeks after Trump won was fear mongering,’ Abdulla Daoud from Refugee Centre in Montreal told the outlet.
‘And none of that – the idea that hundreds of thousands would come to the border – has ever come to fruition.’
Meanwhile, Canada grapples with securing its massive 5,500-mile, with nearly 40,000 people who entered Canada at Roxham Road – a popular border crossing – in 2022.
Premier of Manitoba Wab Kinew speaks to law enforcement officers at the border crossing between Canada and the U.S
Border crossings skyrocketed from 2,238 to a staggering 23,721 in just two years, with border agents making over a million arrests at the border with Mexico last year
Last year, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire counties saw a record number of illegal border crossings in recent months, startling statistics show.
The 2024 numbers, up more than twofold from 2022, come as an increasing number of migrants elect to travel through Canada rather than Mexico to avoid detection, creating a new spin on the now years-long crisis.
While most still use legal ports of entry, more than 12,200 were apprehended crossing illegally from the north in 2023 – much more than the 3,578 arrested the year prior.
Last month, thousands of ICE officers were dispatched to the San Diego border crossing as they prepare to take ‘100,000 immigrants’ back to Mexico and Central America in one of the biggest migrant raids in recent times.
Marines have already descended on the area in an attempt to secure the crossing as President Trump ramped up his promise of cracking down on illegal immigration.
Around 1,500 active duty troops were deployed to the nearly 2,000-mile border this week, including 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton in California.
DailyMail.com revealed that they have been joined with what has been described as a ‘mile long line of DHS trucks and CBP’.
A White House intelligence source said: ‘There is a ‘mile long line of DHS trucks and CBP in front of Camp Pendleton right now, ready to do the biggest illegal immigrant grab in recent history.
‘The West Coast is this week and the East Coast is next week. It is about to get crazy in California. They need to fill 100,000 spots’, meaning arrests is the directive.
The source continued: ‘They are going to be taking 100,000 immigrants back to Mexico, Columbia, El Salvador and Guatemala in this grab.’
Border czar Tom Homan says he is not satisfied with the pace of migrant deportations – despite ICE’s ‘unprecedented’ number of arrests – and claims the US needs to ‘open the aperture up’ and carry out ‘more deportations’.
