Canada is carrying out a $1.3 billion plan<\/a> to improve border control, which includes hiring thousands of law enforcement officers and increasing aerial surveillance.<\/p>\n B\u00e9gin said most of the migrants were transferred to the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle regional processing centre, where they are being screened for their eligibility for asylum in Canada.<\/p>\n “It is highly likely that several migrants will be returned to the United States in the coming hours,” B\u00e9gin told Radio-Canada on Monday morning. “Some were already returned yesterday because they did not meet the Safe Third Country Agreement exemption criteria.”<\/p>\n The treaty is premised on the notion that the United States is a safe country to receive refugees Canada turns away.\u00a0It prevents people from claiming asylum in Canada if they are entering at an official land border crossing with the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n He did not specify the migrants’ country of origin.<\/p>\n The alleged smugglers have been charged with counselling offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for allegedly inducing, aiding or abetting the entry of individuals into Canada through an entry point other than a designated customs office \u2014 in violation of the Customs Act.\u00a0They appeared in court by video conference Sunday and are being detained in a provincial prison.<\/p>\n The accused are expected back in court on Aug. 6, B\u00e9gin\u00a0said.<\/p>\n WATCH | Asylum claims increase at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., crossing:<\/strong> Refugee claims rise at Lacolle, Que., border despite overall drop in asylum seekers entering Canada<\/p>\n The Canada Border Services Agency says it registered more than 3,000 requests for asylum at the crossing in July 2025, compared to 600 last July.<\/p>\n Frantz Andr\u00e9, spokesperson and co-ordinator of the Comit\u00e9 d’action des personnes sans statut, said he is worried about the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants<\/a> and called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement.<\/p>\n “People are very scared of what’s happening south of the border,” Andr\u00e9 said, noting that this is “probably not going to be the last time” large groups of people will attempt to cross the border.<\/p>\n While Andr\u00e9 acknowledged that Canada will most likely continue to participate in the Safe Third Country Agreement, he suggests that the federal government put in place a special program for people from countries, such as Haiti, who are seeking safety, similar to settlement support Canada provided Ukrainians<\/a>.<\/p>\n In July, the CBSA registered more than 3,089 requests for asylum at the Saint-Bernard-de Lacolle crossing compared to 613 in July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-four asylum seekers and three alleged smugglers attempting to enter Canada from the U.S. were intercepted in Stanstead,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-318005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114972320280561288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754338271_449_default.jpg\")
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