Sign Post: Border and Refugee Claims

sign post: Nineteen arrived Saturday and another three on Sunday, according to Huffington Post Canada. Farhan Ahmed was among Saturday's asylum seekers. Manitoba RCMP have confirmed 22 people crossed the border near Emerson, approximately 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg, over the weekend. He told CBC News his group, which included a family with children, walked through deep snow in cold temperatures for about 12 kilometres before they called 911 for help. A sign post for the small border town of Emerson, near the Canada-U.S border crossing where refugees make their way often on foot into Manitoba. RCMP picked up the group and brought them to a Canada Border Services Agency location where they could make refugee claims, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.