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‘We just saw them walking down the driveway with the agents,’ says resident near U.S. border<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evelyne Bouchard was playing board games with her family on Saturday afternoon when she saw RCMP vehicles pull into her driveway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bouchard is used to the police presence. She owns a farm in Hemmingford, Que., along the U.S. border and just two kilometres away from\u00a0Roxham Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she says Saturday was out of the ordinary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of 12 a.m., police presence increased in the town after access to the illegal crossing was closed \u2014 this due to changes to the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), which now prevent migrants from claiming asylum after crossing at Roxham Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that same day, the RCMP came to inform Bouchard that agents were in the woods looking for migrants who crossed into Canada illegally and were on her property<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little while later we saw them escorting a family, two adults and two children, to their vehicle \u2026 We just saw them walking down the driveway with the agents<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard, adding that one of the children was so small, they had to be carried<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said seeing a family of migrants get apprehended first-hand was heartbreaking, even\u00a0surreal<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she and her family were\u00a0hanging out<\/q>\u00a0and\u00a0eating snacks<\/q>\u00a0just a few hundred metres away, there were\u00a0the people whose lives are clearly going through some really tough times<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The juxtaposition of those two realities is really shocking<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Bouchard says the town has been the backdrop to the drama over immigration over the past few years, she expects to\u00a0see more evidence of people struggling<\/q>\u00a0with Roxham Road no longer an option for the migrants seeking safe haven<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s just kind of part of living where we do. But it’s less common to actually see people being, you know, marched into vehicles like that<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We occasionally see footprints or items of clothing that have been dropped in the woods as people are trying to make their way through, and it’s just very moving and sad to see that<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sense of shame<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bouchard says the community neighbouring the U.S. border is tightly knit, but their opinions diverge when it comes to immigration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among her neighbours, some\u00a0people somehow feel that closing Roxham is actually going to lead to anything in terms of reducing migration<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that the one thing that isn’t going to change \u2026 People who are escaping dire circumstances or who are desperate, will find a way through<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bouchard used to volunteer at Bridges not Borders, a\u00a0non-profit organization based in Hemmingford, that helped support asylum seekers crossing into Canada via Roxham Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a longtime resident and a parent, she says she often reflects on how fortunate she is, considering the families struggling mere kilometres away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We live in this place where we can feel relatively safe and you know, our basic needs are met and our kids can go to school and we can have jobs<\/q>\u00a0she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be\u00a0\u2026 having people who are in very difficult circumstances passing right through \u2026 you can’t help but worry about them and how they’re doing<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess [I feel] the sense of shame too, if I’m honest with myself. A sense of shame that we are this well-off, rich country and that this is the welcome mat we’re rolling out, that we’re just forcing people to trek through the forest with their small children and instead of actually having proper due process for people to claim asylum. That just seems awful<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘We’re creating a lucrative market for smugglers’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The border to the U.S. is densely forested, says Bouchard. She says it’s part of what will make it dangerous for migrants attempting to cross illegally, perhaps through smugglers or traffickers in the coming weeks and months<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re creating a lucrative market for smugglers, which doesn’t make me feel much safer<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Canadian living on the border, I’m not afraid of people who are trying to seek a better life [instead of] crossing regularly. I am much more concerned about people trying to make money off the backs of those vulnerable people<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocates in Montreal say the changes to the Safe Third Country Agreement may embolden smugglers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ralph Shayne, the protection co-ordinator for the\u00a0Table de concertation des organismes au service des personnes r\u00e9fugi\u00e9es et immigrantes,<\/em>\u00a0says\u00a0it’s a good day for smugglers<\/q>\u00a0but\u00a0a bad day for migrants, asylum seekers, human rights, you name it<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Ayotte, a founding member of Bridges Not Borders, said the changes will make the Canadian border resemble the U.S. southern border, where smugglers escort migrants across dangerous crossing routes, trying to avoid border agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Wendy
Wendy Ayotte has been working with migrants for over five years and was present at Roxham Road on Saturday when it closed at 12 a.m.PHOTO:  (CBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is what we are going to see in Canada and this is what our country is becoming<\/q>\u00a0she saidThe government has gone down a very tired and dangerous route by trying to turn basically our border into a militarized zone where we are going to see people crossing in very unsafe conditions<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayotte was present on Saturday as Roxham Road closed. She said it was\u00a0one of the most desolate scenes she has witnessed\u00a0<\/a>in her five and a half years on the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In normal times, living near the border seemed pretty routine for local residents, said Gerald Beaudoin, mayor of Havelock, located near Hemmingford, Que<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now all of a sudden, it’s a big deal<\/q>\u00a0said Beaudoin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have these people who are clearly disadvantaged and all of a sudden you spring a 24-hour notice on them, clearly unfair to say the least<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘You can never stop people from crossing the border’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dina Souleiman, the executive director of the Welcome Collective, an organization in Montreal that helps refugee claimants, agrees with those who say the closure of Roxham will do little to dissuade people from trying to enter Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Souleiman says the\u00a0gesture of closing a border doesn’t actually function to achieve what it hopes to achieve<\/q>\u00a0and that migrants will now increasingly cross between official points of entry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can never stop people from crossing the border<\/q>\u00a0Shayne said. The only difference now, he added, is it will be more difficult to keep track of them when they do<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modified agreement prevents migrants from claiming asylum in Canada until they have been in the country for 14 days, which provides an incentive, Shayne said, for people to hide out in Canada until the two weeks have passed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to putting more people at the mercy of smugglers, he said, this could also make it much harder for community organizations to find and help migrants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ask me, it’s added pressure [on community organizations]<\/q>\u00a0Shayne saidHow do you reach those populations<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Souleiman said the messaging surrounding the changes to the STCA and the closure of Roxham Road was disheartening to the migrants she worked with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s definitely all that sort of negative messaging, you know that they’re lesser, that their lives are not important, that we’re not taking them seriously<\/q>\u00a0she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bouchard said it’s really just the\u00a0luck of the draw<\/q>\u00a0She says she empathizes with the migrants, particularly as a parent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your kid just looks to you to know what’s going on and for reassurance and just guidance through everything<\/q>\u00a0said Bouchard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[I’m] thinking of how incredibly difficult it must be to have had to leave circumstances so dire that you would risk going through the bush to try to go to a new country, into an unknown future with your children, with your young children<\/q>\u00a0she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s really, really moving. And I worry. I worry about unscrupulous people trying to exploit these people<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Watts<\/a>,\u00a0Matthew Lapierre<\/a>\u00b7\u00a0CBC News\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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