'I left my kids. I feel so guilty,' said an asylum seeker who crossed the border at Roxham Road.
Asylum seekers are shown being processed at the RCMP's temporary post at the irregular border crossing at the end of Roxham Road, on the Canada-U.S. border, in the early hours of March 16.
"This must be the most difficult thing I've ever had to do. But I just know, if I don't do it, chances are I will use the money that I have and it will never happen," Grace said.After years of stalled talks, Canada and U.S. reach border deal on irregular migrants: sources Grace remembered one night being ripped from her sleep by strangers who were throwing what she thought were rocks onto her house's zinc roof. They yelled at her family to leave, that they were overcrowding the country.Another time, her husband was attacked after a young boy cried to his father that a foreigner was assaulting him. Grace's husband, she said, had only tried to reprimand the boy for talking rudely to a senior.
Grace began saving up for her trip in June 2022. Across the globe, her house sits nearly empty except for a bed, a fridge and a couple of televisions. She sold almost everything to gather the 40,000 South African rands — about $3,000 Cdn — to get her to this point. The family would have needed two more houses worth of items to sell in order to uproot everyone.Economic woes, family ties"Canada is more welcoming, and it's more family oriented, in my opinion. I could be wrong.
"It's another culture, another language. Aside from English, they also speak French. What we want is the best for our children," he said as his daughter clutched a Minnie Mouse doll almost as big as her. The group that had just travelled together from New York City stood huddled a couple of metres from the border. An RCMP officer waited on the other side. He was talking to a man who had just crossed over and was trying to explain that his family wanted to come to Canada, gesturing to the larger group.
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