Emerson: News Conference and Asylum Seekers

emerson: After the news conference, a group of local residents got in a heated conversation about an interview Emerson-Franklin Reeve Greg Janzen did with NBC News, published on Wednesday, in which he spoke about a local man finding asylum seekers in the community, according to CBC. There's a streetlight outside his place and sees six, seven, eight people all black people they are not from Emerson, Janzen said in the interview. Ted Falk and Michelle Rempel held a news conference to call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to visit the town, which has faced a surge in asylum seekers entering Canada. Emerson resident Joyce Dayton, left, argues with Tanya Neufeld following a press conference to discuss the increase of illegal crossings near Emerson, Man., Friday, May 5, 2017. It's about our country and what is right and what is wrong, Dayton said. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Trevor Hagan Joyce Dayton, who has lived in the community for 17 years, called the reeve's comments racist, but resident Tanya Neufeld argued it wasn't. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.