It's a family migratory event Jim, much like our own Weaverbird (Ploceus cucullatus). See the older member lagging behind to retrieve the bundles.| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Lurid Crime Tales- |
| Nine people flee U.S. border patrol to seek asylum in Canada |
| 2017-02-18 |
| [Reuters] Nine 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. The man turned to a pile of belongings and heaved pieces of luggage two at a time into the gully -- enormous wheeled suitcases, plastic shopping bags, a black backpack. "Nobody cares about us," he told journalists. He said they were all from Sudan and had been living and working in Delaware for two years. The RCMP declined on Friday to confirm the nationalities of the people. A Reuters photo showed that at least one of their passports was Sudanese. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Was the taxi driver a Somali? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-02-18 22:15 |
| #10 "Nobody cares about us," That's the only part of the story I can believe, and I agree 1,000% - I don't care. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-02-18 18:15 |
| #9 Since when have people exiting the USA at border crossings been stopped by US personnel? I've never seen anyone stopped this way. Getting stopped ENTERING a country, however, is the routine event at border crossings. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-02-18 15:19 |
| #8 Did Mohammed command Muslims to be drama queens? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-02-18 14:47 |
| #7 Why would we want to stop them? Tell them that the Canadians have free brownies... |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-02-18 14:44 |
| #6 Maybe Turdeau can put them up in his house. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2017-02-18 12:36 |
| #5 "Nobody cares about us," he told journalists. WRONG! We care that it took you 2 years to leave. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-02-18 09:42 |
| #4 It's a family migratory event Jim, much like our own Weaverbird (Ploceus cucullatus). See the older member lagging behind to retrieve the bundles. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-18 07:58 |
| #3 Welcome to the new version of the 'wildlife documentary'. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-02-18 07:50 |
| #2 I wouldn't be surprised the photographer, his crew, and fully equipped van accompanied them on their 'harsh journey'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-02-18 07:27 |
| #1 A Rooters |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-02-18 07:23 |