Cabinet Tuesday: Winter Trickle and Form Options

cabinet tuesday: The results of their table-top exercises will help form options being put before cabinet Tuesday, The Canadian Press has learned, according to CBC. Officials are also studying links between distinct groups of border-crossers that might belie the common notion they're all being pushed into Canada by the volatile U.S. political climate. Border security, RCMP and immigration officials have been running scenarios to prepare for the possibility that a relative winter trickle of crossings into Canada could turn into a spring flood. RCMP help asylum-seeking family through snow after run-in with U.S. border patrol Federal ministers see the asylum seeker situation on the ground in Emerson, Man.UN concerned about plight of asylum seekers walking into Manitoba Two government officials confirmed to The Canadian Press that many of the people coming into Quebec hold American visas issued at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. An RCMP officer carries a child from a family that said they were from Yemen after they crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Que., on Sunday. Interviews revealed the visas were obtained to use the U.S. as a transit point to get to Canada and claim asylum plans set in motion long before the U.S. election in November, the officials said, neither of whom were authorized to publicly discuss the issue. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.