Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's very hard for me to really make that statement. It does seem like it would be safer if they could go to the regular crossing and ask for asylum there, but I don't know if that's going to happen. I have no way to influence the decisions in Canada—or in my own country, for tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. I'm not aware that they are trafficking, that they are charging that much money. There's no way that I can know anything about the money. I have my suspicions, but, honestly, when people arrive and it's that many people—there could be 30, 40, 50 people at once, usually famili

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As an observer who is there daily, I will say that my fear would be that if Roxham Road were shut down, people would just cross the border at any place in the woods, in the fields and in all those remote areas. I think it would really be a safety issue. I say that just from my ex

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're looking for a suggestion as to what the two countries can do to better support the asylum seekers. Did I understand that correctly?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm just an American private citizen who is trying to be helpful. The American system, to me, is extremely broken. At our level with our numbers on the southern border, which you are seeing coming into Canada because that's the pipeline right now, I'm not really sure what the ans

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you all for inviting me to speak. Roxham Road is better know in Africa than it is in the United States. I'm likely the last American these refugees meet on American soil as they continue this journey. I cannot walk in their shoes, but I can walk beside them. As these ref