Canadian border officials say there has been a constant increase in the number of people looking for asylum on a border crossing southern Montreal.
The increase in possible refugees at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing occurs as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States will expire during the next weeks and months.
The data of the Canada Border Services Agency show that the number of asylum claims at the entrance point of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle has increased since the beginning of the year, with 1,356 applications in March and 557 claims from Saturday for April.
Frantz André, spokesman for a group based in Montreal that helps undocumented migrants with asylum cases, says there has been an increase in possible refugees who arrive in Canada since the election of the president of the United States, Donald Trump in November.
The National Security of the USA It ends on April 24.
The Trump administration has also announced the end of the temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans and around 500,000 Haitians, although a federal judge temporarily suspended it.
André says that many of the claimants at the Quebec border crossing are Haitians fleeing from the United States before their state is eliminated.
