Lately, many people have been walking in the freezing cold to Canada from the United States. They are walking into the boarder of Manitoba, but not where the immigration and custom offices are. They are walking in through prairie fields, where there is very deep snow for miles. They are escaping America and seeking refuge in Canada because of Donald Trump’s new travel ban. These people, whom are refugees and immigrants to America, are afraid of being kicked out and sent back to their old homes due to this new law. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have reported that more than thirty people have crossed over. They are all very underdressed for a winter that is ranked on of the coldest in recent years. The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), made in 2004 between
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He met Iyal, 35 and also from Ghana, in the U.S, where they then decided to see if they can live in Canada. Mohammed (the twenty-five-year-old man) said: “we didn’t see any sign, but we could feel we are in Canada, because of the cold-very, very intense”. Both in pain from severe frostbite and disoriented from the cold, finally came upon a highway, where a trucker helped them. Both men ended up in the hospital, where Mohammad had to have all of his fingers amputated, and Iyal needed all fingers amputated except for his thumbs due to frostbite. It is obvious that these people are risking everything just to feel safety, so we should not punish them or send them away. They are only looking for a safe place to live. Rita Chahal, of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council said: “We do not, as an organisation want to see an image like what we saw around the world of Alan Kurdi on a prairie field” talking about a Syrian boy who was found dead on a beach in Turkey, at the young age of three. The weather in Manitoba Is regularly over -20˚C, always snowing, so people would have to be extremely desperate to walk for days across the
He met Iyal, 35 and also from Ghana, in the U.S, where they then decided to see if they can live in Canada. Mohammed (the twenty-five-year-old man) said: “we didn’t see any sign, but we could feel we are in Canada, because of the cold-very, very intense”. Both in pain from severe frostbite and disoriented from the cold, finally came upon a highway, where a trucker helped them. Both men ended up in the hospital, where Mohammad had to have all of his fingers amputated, and Iyal needed all fingers amputated except for his thumbs due to frostbite. It is obvious that these people are risking everything just to feel safety, so we should not punish them or send them away. They are only looking for a safe place to live. Rita Chahal, of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council said: “We do not, as an organisation want to see an image like what we saw around the world of Alan Kurdi on a prairie field” talking about a Syrian boy who was found dead on a beach in Turkey, at the young age of three. The weather in Manitoba Is regularly over -20˚C, always snowing, so people would have to be extremely desperate to walk for days across the