Police mentioned Thursday {that a} man described by media as a migrant who entered Canada with out papers has been discovered useless in woods close to a border checkpoint.
The Surete du Quebec advised AFP the physique had been found Wednesday afternoon close to the Roxham Road crossing between the U.S. state of New York and Quebec that’s widespread with asylum seekers.
Authorities didn’t disclose his nationality however mentioned the circumstances of his demise had been being investigated.
Public broadcaster CBC, citing unnamed sources, reported that he was a migrant.
The Roxham Road pedestrian path is one in every of a number of between Canada and the United States which have seen tens of 1000’s of migrants cross by way of in recent times.
Asylum seekers slipping into Canada from the United States — a development that surged throughout Donald Trump’s presidency and flared up once more this yr — have sparked outcries.
Although almost all are intercepted by police upon arrival, issues about irregular migration turned a key poll field difficulty within the final Quebec election in October 2022 that returned the right-wing nationalist Coalition Avenir Quebec to energy.
While a whole lot of migrants die annually alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, deaths are uncommon on the United States’s northern frontier.
The journeys of some migrants braving biting chilly and rugged terrain, nonetheless, have resulted in tragedy: a Dominican Republic man making the harmful trek reportedly drowned in a wooded marsh on the Canadian facet in 2019.
In January 2022 Canadian authorites additionally found the our bodies of 4 U.S.-bound Indian nationals together with a child who apparently froze to demise in a blizzard close to Emerson, Manitoba, a number of meters from the U.S. border.
A Florida man was charged with human smuggling in that case.
