Assistant Commissioner Lisa Morrland, RCMP Federal Po -West Region Regional Commander, Regional Commander of North West Region, in Edmonton on February 5, talks to the media about three Canadian border incidents.Press of Jason Franceson/Canada
The RCMP has announced that it has illegally crossed the US border into Canada’s Peries over the past three weeks, none of which appears to be involved in the Fantanical Trade.
Federal Mounty held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon at the Border Services Agency of Alberta and Canada, which details three separate incidents near or around the province’s Coats Border Crossing, a police There is also a chase that ended in a suicide.
They said The concerns are proof that Canada controls its aspects of international boundaries, but will not directly connect his announcement with US President Donald Trump’s claim that Canada is freely on immigrants and illegal opioids Gives flowing into his country.
Mr Trump has described Canada’s border controls for 25 % of taxes on imports from Canada, and 10 % of levies on its oil.
According to Assistant Commissioner Lisa Morland, all the people who were caught were traveling north and no one had a fantasy, who is in charge of RCMP’s federal policing units in the northwest of the country.
“We have partnerships, technology and resources to respond to the border and stop illegal activity,” he told reporters in Edmonton on Wednesday. “The RCMP is ensuring that we play our role with our partners, and it includes our US partners – there is a lot of intelligence that is going back and forth.”
Official data shows that the RCMP withdrew 1,302 people who illegally crossed the border last year, mostly in British Columbia and Quebec. Canadian border officials recently said they seized nearly 34 34,000 foreign nationals along with all land crossing with the United States last year, which they believed to increase from 2023 to 30 % “Inaccessible”.
Data published by the US Customs and Border Protection shows that 23,721 people were arrested last year, crossing its northern border. It is much higher than about 2, 2,238 caught two years ago, but nevertheless, CBP agents on the Mexico border last year’s border over 1.5 million arrests by CBP agents on the last financial year border. It is due to lack of it.
In December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to demand more than $ 1 billion in CBSA and RCMP for better safety of the border, and last month, provincial premieres to resolve the issue The police had committed to earning an additional reinforcement. Some measures include leasing two sophisticated black hawk helicopters to patrol the entire border from the bases of Ottawa and Monitoba, and the purchase of more drones.
None of the three incidents described on Wednesday appeared to include these new tools, but Assistant Commissioner Moraland said a group of migrants patrolled the border by a RCMP plane. Discover On January 14, Emerson used thermal imaging to discover a group of six adults illegally crossing humans and helped arrest the mountains in the forest on the ground.
The group, which included people from Jordan, Sudan, Chad and Mauritius, has been transferred to CBSA custody.
The other two incidents have happened this week, he said. US Border Petrol notified Mounties just Monday that four adults and five underage people came to hiking illegally near Alberta, the busiest government port in Alberta, Alberta.
The group was carrying a suit case and the hats, gloves or “anything we usually see” at -30, he said, indicating it, almost “heartbreak. The situation is “which is equivalent to the death of Patel in 2022, found an Indian couple near their young baby and 11 -year -old Emerson.
Assistant Commissioner Moraland said that after the group was evaluated by paramedics, they were transferred to the CBSA.
He said the last incident occurred on Tuesday, when CBSA agents entered Alberta, an American man after his flag for further questioning at the Coats crossing. Assistant Commissioner Moraland said that Mounties and local police chased the man, who was armed, Lithb Bridge in the north and then to the river Milk, where he blew his tires. He then fled on foot, chasing him with a police dog, but he died of bullets himself.
He added that the Alberta serious incident Response Team, the province’s police watchdog is now investigating its death.
