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Canadian Media Publishes Video of Nigerian Migrants 'Running Away' From Trump's America
[All Africa] A video has surfaced online showing Nigerian migrants colonists making efforts to enter Canada illegally from the U.S. border.

The two countries share an international border.

The video was published in September 2017 by a Canadian media, CBC News.

The migrants colonists, inside a Greyhound bus, are seen in the video arriving a filling station which also serves as a bus stop at Plattsburgh, New York, just before dawn.

From there, they took taxis to the border between the U.S and Canada, where they would cross by foot illegally into Quebec, Canada.

The taxis stopped at a road end. And the migrants colonists, about 12 of them, got down were they were confronted by Canadian police officials.

"This is not a legal point of entry," an officer said to the migrants colonists standing a few metres away from the blocked border. "This is an illegal point."

"Yes, we know," the migrants colonists chorused.

The voice-over the video says "The RCMP (referring to the Canadian police officer) is obligated to tell them with one step across they will be tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
"But still if they can slip into Canada they will be considered for asylum status. And that flicker of hope is enough for desperate people."

One man among the migrants colonists told the police officer that they believed Canada could help solve their problem and that was why they were desperate to enter the North American country illegally.

"We don't have any other choice," the man said.

And the others concurred: "We don't have any other place to go back to. Our mind is made up, that's why we want to come into Canada."

The voice-over the video continued: "This is a mock standoff, really. Almost no one who comes here turns away."

One of the migrants colonists, identified as Lilian, is interviewed in the video.

She said she learnt about the illegal crossing from a report on television and had to read it up on Google.

Ms. Lilian, with her child strapped on her back, said Canada "has a future for the children and for everybody.

"I want to take the risk because I know there's a future here for me and my baby."

Ms. Lilian said her son is a U.S citizen but that she didn't want to stay in the U.S "because Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 doesn't want me".


Posted by: Fred 2018-01-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=505281