Eight people flee U.S. border patrol to seek asylum in Canada

[FindersKeepers]

Do you think that they really wanted to stop them? Perhaps they hold the same opinion as many members, which is basically "Good riddance."

No, I don't think they wanted to stop them. But, the article portrays that point of view.

[Croft]

No, I don't think they wanted to stop them. But, the article portrays that point of view.

Ys it does along with the photo op showing the nice Canadians helping escapees from bad Trump land. It's just the usual $#@!.

But yep it's fantastic to hear loads are actually heading to Canada. It makes a change to see them leaving rather than always trying to get in.Trump is already making such a difference.

[Crepitus]

I never would have thought I'd live to see the day that refugees were fleeing America.

[Peter1469]

I never would have thought I'd live to see the day that refugees were fleeing America.

More!

[Tahuyaman]

I hope our border patrol doesn't try to stop these people. Also, can they just offer the migrants a ride? That would be the compassionate thing to do.

Let them go. I don't see a problem here. After all, the door swings both ways.

[Casper]

Let them go. I don't see a problem here. After all, the door swings both ways.

Correct, and those that believed that these immigrants are a danger should know that crossing back into the US is a piece of cake. We gonna need another wall in the north? Just remember one too many walls only turns the Nation into a Prison.

[donttread]

Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.
As a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.
One by one they scrambled across the snowy gully separating the two countries. RCMP officers watching from the other side helped them up, lifting the younger children and asking a woman, who leaned on her fellow passenger as she walked, if she needed medical care.
The children looked back from where they had come as the U.S. officer held the first man, saying his papers needed to be verified.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ca...-idUSKBN15W2GN

So border patrol was trying to stop refuges from leaving? Why?

[Tahuyaman]

Do you think that they really wanted to stop them? Perhaps they hold the same opinion as many members, which is basically "Good riddance."

Its not a matter of good riddence. If you want to leave the country, why should we stop you?

[Beevee]

Do not stop them. Give them a ride. That is compassion for the US tax payer and all legal citizens.

As an alternative we could always build a wall and have America pay for it.

[Dangermouse]

I never would have thought I'd live to see the day that refugees were fleeing America.

A modern take on "The Sound of Music" where the Von Trapps flee the Nazis.