CANADA-US-POLITICS-MIGRANTS

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Keven Rouleau patrols along the Canada-US border, near the border town of Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, on January 30, 2025. Fresh footprints cut across the thick blanket of snow outside a small white house near the line dividing Canada and the United States. For Canadian border officer Keven Rouleau, it's a clear sign of illegal migration. "They regularly run across the border," he told AFP, which shadowed him on patrol. In 2024, these southbound migrants numbered 21,000 -- a drop in the ocean compared to the 1.5 million intercepted on the US border with Mexico. Migrants who cross from Canada into the United States in the winter face dangerous conditions, with deep snow and high winds, and are often forced to abandon their vehicles to proceed on foot. (Photo by Daphné LEMELIN / AFP) (Photo by DAPHNE LEMELIN/AFP via Getty Images)