While more than 6,400 Haitians living in the United States have already crossed the Canadian border illegally https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21850-haiti-canada-more-than-6-400-haitians-have-illegally-crossed-the-quebec-border.html to seek asylum, fearing to be expelled in Haiti if President Trump decides not to renew their Temporary Protected Status (TPS), it seems that we are witnessing of the beginning of a new phenomenon, Haitians leaving Haiti, to enter irregularly into Canada like their compatriots, by transiting only briefly by the United States.

US Customs would have informed their Canadian colleagues that more and more Haitians are flying from Port-au-Prince to Miami and then Plattsburgh before taking a taxi to one of the illegal crossing points. Including the Roxham road at Lacolle. Several Haitian migrants intercepted in Canadian territory have acknowledged that they do not live in the United States and come directly from Haiti...

New arrivals are flooding the flow of hundreds of Haitians who illegally cross the Canadian border each day and complicate the logistical management of this large number of new arrivals in Quebec...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21850-haiti-canada-more-than-6-400-haitians-have-illegally-crossed-the-quebec-border.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21788-haiti-politics-haitian-migrant-file-end-of-mission-in-canada.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21774-haiti-flash-the-canadian-army-builds-a-border-camp-for-haitian-migrants.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21762-haiti-quebec-two-haitian-ministers-on-mission-in-montreal.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21748-haiti-montreal-nearly-2-400-haitians-seeking-asylum-ceci-calls-for-help.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21717-haiti-flash-waves-of-haitian-refugees-unprecedented-in-quebec.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21037-haiti-flash-extension-of-tps-procedures-to-follow.html

TB/ HaitiLibre