A mother recounts her dangerous journey across the border to escape Trump’s America
Global News
At times, a 25-year old woman said the snow reached her knees as she trudged through a dark, icy forest near the Quebec border in mid-January.
At times, a 25-year old woman said the snow reached her knees as she trudged through a dark, icy forest near the Quebec border in mid-January.
With temperatures hovering around -11 C, she said she was holding her daughter in one arm, while carrying a cellphone with her other hand as she listened to a voice transmitting instructions to her and four other Haitian migrants on where to walk, wait and turn.
“It felt like a race with time,” the woman recalled in a recent interview.
Weeks after this ordeal, the woman and her daughter are seeking asylum in Canada.
The Canadian Press interviewed her several times before and after she arrived in Quebec and agreed not to name her because she was afraid it could affect her immigration application process and her daughter’s life in Canada.
The woman’s journey is an increasingly common one, say migrant advocates. Fearing what U.S. President Donald Trump has in store for people with precarious legal statuses, they say migrants are risking their lives for the chance to claim asylum in Canada.
Republicans in the U.S. have defended their policies, insisting they are trying to end lawlessness in the immigration system.
But the woman said Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is exacerbating her fears.
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