RCMP arrest Cuban national trying to enter Canada by running across bridge from U.S.

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 08, 2025 8:16 AM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

The RCMP says officers arrested a Cuban nationalist attempting to participate Canada from the United States by moving crossed the Fort Erie International Railway Bridge that connects Ontario to New York.

The Mounties accidental their Niagara-on-the-Lake borderline integrity portion officers, with assistance from Ontario Provincial Police, arrested the idiosyncratic past period nether the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

They accidental the idiosyncratic was taken to the Peace Bridge larboard of introduction successful Fort Erie for an assessment, deemed ineligible to participate Canada and was returned to the U.S. connected the aforesaid day.

The RCMP says it maintains round-the-clock beingness astatine the railway span wherever officers person arrested respective people attempting to illegally participate Canada, but they were each yet returned to the U.S.

The Mounties accidental the unit is seeing "positive operational interaction from caller investments successful instrumentality enforcement."

$1.3-billion program to boost borderline security

Ottawa introduced $1.3 cardinal successful spending successful December's autumn economical connection aimed astatine disrupting the travel of fentanyl and strengthening 24/7 surveillance of the Canada-U.S. border.

The national government's announcement was in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats.

At the time, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said the authorities had already deployed 60 caller drones and was mounting up surveillance towers adjacent the 8,891-kilometre border.