Government Show: Near-Fatal Border and British Columbia

government show: Statistics previously provided by the Immigration Department had revealed 2,464 were apprehended in 2016, according to CBC. Of those stopped so far this year, 677 were in Quebec, 161 in Manitoba and 291 in British Columbia. Figures provided by the federal government show that in the first two months of this year, the RCMP intercepted 1,134 people. Near-fatal border crossing prompts calls for immigration reform The long trek from Somalia How refugees arrive at Canada's door The only other province where Mounties stopped asylum seekers this year was Saskatchewan, where five people were apprehended in January. Tracking asylum claims is the work of the Canada Border Services Agency and the Immigration Department and in their statistics they don't separate out how an asylum seeker arrives. While the RCMP arrests would-be refugee claimants, how many of them actually go on to lodge asylum claims in Canada is unclear. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.