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On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y.

Border Patrol agents initially spotted the group, but then lost them in the forests along these borderlands. Then, at about 7 p.m. ET, they found a white Acura with New Jersey plates parked on a dirt road near the border. The driver told the agents he was looking for a hotel before driving off.

Canada could make a good start by declaring a moratorium on all immigration, that includes closing the door on benefit shopping “asylum” seekers.

QUEBEC — The best way to take away U.S. president-elect Donald’s Trump’s complaints about the Canadian border is to beef up controls, Premier François Legault said Wednesday.

Arriving for question period at the legislature a few hours before a meeting of Canada’s premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Legault said he expects a concrete plan from Ottawa.

President-elect Donald Trump’s ire toward Mexico for the flow of migrants into the U.S. is nothing new. Now, he has added Canada as a target over the issue.

“As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before,” he asserted on the social media platform Truth Social on Monday. The post also laid out his planned course of action: a 25 percent tariff on all imports from both countries.

Here’s a look at what’s happening at the northern U.S. border.

No question that the Canadian numbers do not approach those of the US-Mexican border but the numbers are increasing and Canada has done very little to secure immigration & refugee” screening while becoming an easy mark for human traffickers.