Emergency Officials: Asylum Seekers and Border

emergency officials: From February 22 to February 27, 2017, rcmpmb intercepted 39 people illegally crossing the border near Emerson, MB. Total for 2017 is 143 rcmpmb The Canada Border Services Agency has set up a trailer near the U.S. border to help asylum seekers through the refugee claim process and relieve some of the strain on emergency officials in the border town of Emerson, Man., about 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg, according to CBC. More than 400 asylum seekers have walked into Manitoba in the past 10 months, many arriving under the cover of darkness in Emerson, where they've been helped by local emergency officials. RCMP said 143 asylum seekers have crossed on foot into Manitoba this year, including at least a dozen on Sunday and Monday. Read more about refugees and the Canada-U.S. border Expanded waiting room The size of groups of border-jumping asylum seekers has increased in recent weeks, and border officers have been running out of space to temporarily keep asylum seekers in their office in Emerson. Leif Larsen/CBC Our current office was being stretched, said Jeryn Peters, chief of operations with Canada Border Services Agency. Jeryn Peters, chief of operations with the Canada Border Services Agency, says the organization has set up a trailer at the border to hold asylum seekers during processing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.