Rise in asylum seekers crossing into Quebec as U.S. revokes status of thousands of migrants

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 08, 2025 3:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Canadian borderline officials accidental determination has been a dependable emergence successful the fig of radical seeking asylum astatine a borderline crossing southbound of Montreal.

The emergence successful would-be refugees astatine the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle borderline crossing comes arsenic the impermanent presumption of hundreds of thousands of migrants successful the United States is acceptable to expire implicit the adjacent weeks and months.

Data from Canada Border Services Agency shows the fig of asylum claims astatine the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle constituent of introduction has accrued since the commencement of the year, with 1,356 applications successful March and 557 claims arsenic of Saturday for April.

Frantz André, spokesperson for a Montreal-based radical that helps undocumented migrants with asylum cases, says determination has been a emergence successful would-be refugees coming to Canada since the predetermination of U.S. President Donald Trump successful November.

U.S. Homeland Security said past period it was revoking the impermanent presumption of 532,000 radical from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who flew to the state astatine their ain disbursal with a fiscal sponsor. It ends April 24.

The Trump medication has besides announced an extremity to Temporary Protected Status for 600,000 Venezuelans and astir 500,000 Haitians, though a national justice temporarily enactment that connected hold.

André says galore of the claimants astatine the Quebec borderline crossing are Haitians fleeing the U.S. earlier their presumption is removed.