After migrants cross into Canada through Roxham Road in Quebec, many are loaded onto buses and sent to places like Niagara Falls, Ont., where 2,000 hotel rooms have been set aside. The mayor says the surge is unsustainable.
Ludberg says she wants to provide one-on-one mentoring to the hundreds more young people now in the community, but the group already has a 300-person wait list."We're already struggling post-pandemic recovery," she said.
Mohammed says he hasn't heard of any of the community support offered. Other than applying for social assistance with a city official who visited a hotel near him, he says no one has told him where else he can turn — and finding out on his own is hard because he doesn't speak the language.Arriving in Ontario was daunting at first for Espérantine Désardouin, too. She and her family of five were bused to Cornwall after crossing at Roxham Road last August..
"This is very important for me because I received a lot from the community. I have to give back. I can say that when I come here, this wasn't planned, but it's good for me. We feel we have a good life."The community group Désardouin is working for, L'Association des communautés francophones de l'Ontario , has been helping connect hundreds of newcomer families, enrol kids in schools, open bank accounts and navigate paperwork for work permits.
Since Quebec started turning away the vast majority, 1,400 asylum seekers have come through the eastern Ontario city. Eight hundred asylum seekers are still at two hotels in Cornwall reserved by the federal government.
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