Government Officials: Canadian Press

government officials: Feds to help Manitoba border community with refugee costs The Canadian Press The results of their table-top exercises will help form options being put before cabinet Tuesday, The Canadian Press has learned, according to Globe and Mail. 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 illegal immigration into Canada could turn into a spring flood. 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. But it is the pictures of RCMP officers hoisting small children above snow-covered fields along the Canada-U.S. frontier that have drawn global attention and placed political pressure on the Trudeau government from all sides. Interviews revealed the visas were obtained to use the U.S. as a transit point 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.