{"id":41907,"date":"2025-08-02T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41907\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:34:12","slug":"quebecs-lacolle-border-sees-surge-in-asylum-seekers-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41907\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec\u2019s Lacolle border sees surge in asylum seekers &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The number of people seeking asylum at Quebec\u2019s Lacolle border crossing has surged dramatically this summer, reaching five times the volume seen at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As of July 27, just over 3,000 asylum seekers had been processed at the Lacolle crossing, nearly triple the number recorded in June, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).<\/p>\n<p>The sharp increase is raising concerns among Montreal-based organizations that support refugee claimants, who say they\u2019re struggling to keep up with the growing demand for housing, legal assistance and social services.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to have about 20 to 30 people coming in per month,\u201d Woodmy Estim\u00e9 from La Traverse shelter for new arrivals in Montreal North told Global News. \u201cNow it\u2019s like around 60 to 70.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Traverse says most of the people who use its services are of Haitian origin who are fleeing the U.S. because of the immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy concern is for my family to not get deported back because the situation in Haiti is very critical,\u201d Haitian Montrealer Shara Deriscar told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11315129\/retaliate-donald-trump-tariffs-doug-ford-mark-carney-hit-back\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754141651_741_Carney-and-Ford.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRetaliate against Trump\u2019s tariffs? Why Ford wants Carney to \u2018hit back\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11314724\/mark-carney-donald-trump-tariff-response\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754141652_795_donald-trump-carney-tariffs.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRead Carney\u2019s full response to Trump\u2019s 35% tariff on Canada\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advocates say many are scared and crossing at irregular border areas.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP says that in recent weeks, they too have seen a significant rise in the number of people crossing illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The CBSA says Haitian nationals top the list of land border asylum claims as of July 27 this year.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, watch Global\u2019s Phil Carpenter\u2019s report above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The number of people seeking asylum at Quebec\u2019s Lacolle border&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,29855,66],"class_list":["post-41907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-lacolle-border","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}