America Is the 'Problem Now': Asylum Seekers Flee to Canada

[mentalfloss]

America Is the 'Problem Now': Asylum Seekers Flee to Canada

A Somali man trekked 21 hours as temperatures hovered around 0 degrees Fahrenheit to make it across the northern U.S. border into Manitoba, Canada, CBC, a Canadian news agency reported.

The freezing and exhausted man shared his story with a CBC news reporter at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday.

"I have a problem. America is [the] problem now," he said, according to the report.

He was eventually picked up by Canadian police who brought him to get medical care.

NBC journalist Peter Alexander fact checked President Donald Trump during a Thursday press conference on a false statement Trump made just moments before. Trump claimed to have won the biggest electoral college...

The man is one of several Somali refugees who have fled into Manitoba since Donald Trump took office, CBC reported. Concerned about their legal status in the U.S., they've braved freezing temperatures on exhausting treks to make it over the northern border.

America Is the 'Problem Now': Canadian Reporter Finds Freezing Asylum Seeker | NBC New York

 

[Christianna]

Many Muslims are fleeing the US, risking their lives by crossing in the dead of winter. Most have no clue about winter even so rather than turn back they continue, that is desperation.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Illegals have been crossing into Canada like that for several years. We just have more of them, now.

I wonder if any of the Minuteman Militia noticed that the "terrorists" were going in the wrong direction a few years ago, when they were "patrolling" the woods of Vermont near our border?

 

[Corduroy]

So long as they aren't Americans. Their culture is barbaric and incompatible with ours. They hate women, gay people, they're violent, ignorant and they are a leading source of terrorism.

 

[Durry]

The boarder should be better paroled and these people should be turned back to stay in the USA. It's their problem, they let them into their country to start with and they should not have ANY means to make any claims to enter or stay in Canada.

 

[Curious Cdn]

The boarder should be better paroled and these people should be turned back to stay in the USA. It's their problem, they let them into their country to start with and they should not have ANY means to make any claims to enter or stay in Canada.

The boarder should pay his rent, by gum.

 

[gerryh]

the boarder should be better paroled and these people should be turned back to stay in the usa. It's their problem, they let them into their country to start with and they should not have any means to make any claims to enter or stay in canada.

roflmfao

 

[Corduroy]

We don't need any boarders on parole. Canada's not a halfway house.

 

[Curious Cdn]

We don't need any boarders on parole. Canada's not a halfway house.

... well, maybe yes, maybe no ...

 

[taxslave]

There are thousands of good, qualified candidate all over the world wanting to come to Canada. Any que jumpers must be sent back to wherever they came from.

 

[darkbeaver]

The influx of the dissafected will be good for the Canadian national backbone, we should screen for the most radicle elements.There's some energy there we should capture. Climate change and adaptation are also considerations. Everything hindges on snow removal strategey now. God bless Canada.

Snow has manufacturing sugestions, getting cold is gold, refrridgeration tech will rule, thew solidification ofd water is important to Canada, a majotr supplier of ice products in the twenty first century.

The heat is unbearable, call us, ice INC cold delivered anywhere on the planet, high quality ice, highest water content in thye industry. certified etc,

 

[petros]

Trekked 21 hours? Why not take the bus from Pembina MN?

the Canadian police?

 

[Curious Cdn]

Trekked 21 hours? Why not take the bus from Pembina MN?

the Canadian police?

There's a bus?

 

[petros]

Yes. Pulled by 72 virgin Huskies.

 

[mentalfloss]

That makes 72 Jesus'

 

[petros]

Sit! That's a good boy!