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Canada: OTTAWA - Smugglers were caught trying to slip dramatically more people into Canada in 2011 over the previous year at largely unguarded points along the border with the United States, says a newly declassified report. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. At the same time, the number of people nabbed while being spirited into the United States from Canada fell slightly during the same period to 360 from 376. Canadian border guards are silhouetted as they replace each other at an inspection booth at the Douglas border crossing on the Canada-USA border in Surrey, B.C., on August 20, 2009. Smugglers were caught trying to slip dramatically more people into Canada in 2011 over the previous year at largely unguarded points along the border with the United States, says a newly declassified report. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Authorities apprehended 487 people as smugglers attempted to sneak them into Canada at remote locales, up from 308 in 2010, says the binational report on border security. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.