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Emerson Senior Corner
by Cheryl Wichern

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Swine Technician Wanted at
Tobacco Creek Farms
Tobacco Creek Farms is currently accepting applications for the position of Swine Technician located at our 3000 sow ISO wean barn near Lowe Farm. Duties include high pressure washing, feeding sows, record keeping, and general farm duties

Email resume to tcfarm@ymail.com or call Willy Waldner @ 204-712-5276
Number of Police Interceptions of Border Crosses Down
By Don Piett

We all remember when Emerson was in the nightly news due to the number of asylum seekers crossing the border here.  The exodus was prompted by an Executive Order signed by then President Donald Trump limiting immigration from some countries.  Refugees from those countries felt threatened and some chose to come to the great white north.
Since they were already in a safe country, the United States of America, their claim would have been denied had they applied at the border crossing, so they crossed into Canada illegally and when apprehended by the RCMP applied for refugee status from inside the country.
The table below shows the number of people who crossed the border illegally in Manitoba and then where intercepted by the RCMP and the number of asylum claims processed in Manitoba by both the Canadian Border Services Agency and Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Year    RCMP Interceptions    Asylum Claims Processed
2017            1018                                        1330   
2018            410                                           620   
2019            180                                           410   
2020            28                                            170   
2021            19                                             125   
2022            72                                            300   
2023            77                                            125   
2024            16                                            185   

All numbers are from the Government of Canada website and the numbers for 2024 are only for the month of January.
The RCMP interceptions dropped dramatically during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 and have since rebounded somewhat.  They are still much lower than 2017 and 2018, 
The table does not specify if the claimants were successful in applying for asylum or if these claims were denied, just the number that were processed. And there is no information on illegal border crossers who were not intercepted by the police or CBSA and are still in the country illegally. It also contains no information on people who crossed the border from Canada into the United States.
It seems that there are always some people willing to risk the journey and seek asylum in Canada and Manitoba, but the numbers have returned to much more manageable levels in recent years.

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