Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Illegal Aliens Are Fleeing The US For Canada — and These Americans Are Helping

ANDRE MALERBA/THE WASHINGTON POST
Omer Malik knew he had to slip into Canada to avoid President Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
But the 19-year-old native of Afghanistan needed a friend to help guide him. He found that friend in a 66-year-old former French teacher, one of a number of people here in the Adirondack region who believe it's their duty to comfort and support those fleeing Trump's vision for America.
ANDRE MALERBA/THE WASHINGTON POST
As Malik dragged his suitcase toward the Canadian border, Janet McFetridge gave him two bags of potato chips, a knit hat and — what she considers her most important gift — a hug. Then she yelled across the thicket of cattails and flowering grasses that separated them from Quebec.
"Hello," she called, alerting a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer that Malik was about to illegally cross the border to claim asylum. "We got someone here."
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