Canadian Police Prepare To Anticipate US Migrants After Trump Leads

JAKARTA - Canadian police and migrant aid groups are preparing to face the entry of asylum seekers crossing from the United States during the leadership of President-elect Donald Trump.

At the same time Canada is also facing a record number of refugees submitting applications and trying to bring in fewer refugees.

Donald Trump, who was elected US President, once promised to make the biggest deportation in American history.

Canadian police have been preparing for months, Canadian Royal Police Sergeant Charles Poirier said.

"We learned a few months ago that we had to start preparing an emergency plan because if he was in power, which he would do in the next few months, this could encourage illegal migration and irregular migration to (provincial) Quebec and Canada," he told Reuters on Friday, November 8.

The worst scenario is that people cross large numbers everywhere in this area. Let's say we have 100 people per day who enter across the border, then it will be difficult because our officers basically have to travel a very long distance on the way. orders to arrest everyone," he added.

Police are on high alert, Poirier said, preparing to deploy additional resources to patrol the border.

Depending on what happened, it could mean hundreds more officers. It could also mean more cruisers, bus rentals, trailers, and land rentals.

"All eyes are on the border right now. We are on high alert, I can tell you, days before the election, and we will probably remain vigilant over the coming weeks," he said.

When Trump first came to power in 2017, thousands of asylum seekers crossed into Canada via official border crossings to claim refugees mostly at Roxham Road, near the Quebec-New York border.

Canada and the United States are expanding bilateral agreements so that now asylum seekers who try to cross anywhere along the 4.000-mile border, not just through official crossings, will be rejected unless they meet limited exceptions.

This means people crossing from the US to file claims must sneak undetected and hide for two weeks before seeking asylum.

"When you don't create a legitimate path, or when you just create a path where people have to do the impossible to get safety, unfortunately, people will try to do the impossible," said Abdulla Daoud, director of The Refugee Center in Montreal.