Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Quebec

DERBY LINE, Vt. Dept: DERBY LINE, Vt. - A Dodge Caravan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound lane unblocked by traffic, according to Winnipeg Free Press. About 35 kilometres later, they stopped in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Magog, Quebec, and asked someone to call the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When the Mounties arrived, the Roma occupants of the vehicle applied for political asylum and in this Nov. 14, 2012 photo, Miguel Begin, the chief of operations for the Canada Border Services Agency's Stanstead sector, stands at the Canadian port of entry in Stanstead, Quebec. Canadian immigration officials on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 said a Romanian smuggling ring has been bringing Gypsies into the U.S. through Mexico in order for them to eventually gain asylum in Canada. Over the past year, cars loaded with ethnic Roma asylum seekers have run the border between Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead. AP Photo/Toby Talbot Border agents could only watch as the van disappeared into Quebec. But the vehicle and its occupants didn't try to disappear. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.