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• Black Hawk helicopter flights begin along U.S. border in Alberta

  29-01-2025 03:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP said the Black Hawk helicopter will patrol the U.S.-Canada border in Alberta to search for, and target, all criminal activity in the region — not just illegal crossings.
  
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• ICE threatened to dump migrants in Mexico after ‘mental torture’ and ‘crushed genitals’ at Fort Bliss, complaint alleges

  09-12-2025 01:26
  
  Detainees describe guards routinely beating and pressuring immigrants to hop border fences
  
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• ICE threatened to dump Cuban immigrants in Mexico after ‘mental torture’ and ‘beatings’ at Fort Bliss, complaint alleges

  09-12-2025 01:12
  
  Detainees describe guards crushing their genitals and pressuring immigrants to hop border fences
  
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• All quiet on the southern Manitoba front

  29-11-2025 14:11 via globalnews.ca
  It's been 11 months since Manitoba started using conservation officers as extra eyes on the U.S. border in response to claims that drugs were pouring in from Canada.
  
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• Fourth man charged after 44 people found in truck by U.S. border

  12-08-2025 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  The 44 migrants were mostly Haitian, and included a pregnant woman and children as young as four. Despite the poor conditions they were found in, they were not seriously hurt.
  
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• RCMP establishes ‘drone corridor’ to boost Canada-U.S. border security

  12-08-2025 00:41 via globalnews.ca
  Drones will patrol the border in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in what the RCMP says is a trial that will target illegal activity including smuggling and drug trafficking.
  
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• Canadians returning from U.S. drops for 7th straight month: StatCan

  11-08-2025 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  The preliminary number of Canadian returns by air and land from the U.S. saw steep declines in July compared to a year prior as the trade war between the two countries continues.
  
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• U.S. man arrested trying to illegally enter Canada by kayak: police

  06-08-2025 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  LaSalle police said an officer encountered the man with two backpacks shortly before 1 a.m. while conducting commercial property checks near the Detroit River.
  
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• B.C. couple asked to pay duties on family heirloom returned to them from U.S.

  23-07-2025 03:23 via globalnews.ca
  The couple refused to pay the fees, which included government charges and a brokerage fee. UPS is now holding the package in Canada until the fees are paid.
  
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• ‘Feels like death’: Canadian-American separated from family, denied re-entry at border

  14-07-2025 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  The 46-year-old moved to America as a toddler, and now has a wife, five children, a job, and a home. But when he tried to re-enter the U.S., he was stopped by border agents.
  
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• U.S. envoy closely eyes Canada defence spending; says NATO about collective defence

  08-06-2025 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  U.S. envoy says defence spending is Canada's choice but remains a "relationship irritant" as NATO eyes higher targets and Carney, Trump pursue new defence talks.
  
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• Canadians facing device searches and detainment is ‘not a pattern,’ U.S. ambassador says

  07-06-2025 18:26 via globalnews.ca
  A survey in early May found 52 per cent of respondents feel that "it is no longer safe for all Canadians travelling to the United States."
  
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• Canadians could face detention if denied U.S. entry, Ottawa warns

  05-04-2025 17:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal government is urging Canadians travelling to the U.S. to be "forthcoming" with border agents, and warns if denied entry some people could be detained.
  
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• Quebec town says U.S. is limiting Canadian access to border-straddling library

  21-03-2025 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Library and town officials will hold a news conference alongside Liberal MP Marie-Claude Bibeau Friday to address the changes.
  
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• ‘Never seen anything like this’: Manitoba border crossing sees drop in trucking to U.S.

  11-03-2025 17:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  The owner of the Emerson, Man., duty free shop along the border said he's seen a massive slowdown in business ever since U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats began.
  
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• Family with kids aged 1 and 2 found frozen trying to cross Canada-U.S. border

  07-03-2025 19:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  The RCMP says they kept the family on the phone while tracking their coordinates by GPS and by following their footsteps in the snow.
  
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• Canada must counter border ‘crisis’ rhetoric, internal report urged

  16-02-2025 16:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  The report flagged early rumblings in the U.S. about irregular migration and fentanyl from Canada and concluded that the facts were largely being misrepresented.
  
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• Three men in Quebec accused of smuggling people from the U.S. into Canada

  07-02-2025 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Muhammet Akca, 41, is charged with conspiring to facilitate the illegal crossing of several people in 2024 and is scheduled to appear in court in Valleyfield, Que., on March 3.
  
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• Quebec man extradited to U.S. after pregnant migrant dies in border crossing attempt

  07-02-2025 00:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  The U.S. attorney's office for the northern District of New York has charged Jhader Augusto Uribe-Tobar, 36, with three smuggling-related counts.
  
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• RCMP reveals new video of migrant interception at Canada-U.S. border

  05-02-2025 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  The RCMP has intercepted migrants illegally attempting to enter Canada from the United States as Ottawa ramps up border security amid growing pressure from U.S.
  
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• Surrey joins alliance with Canadian border mayors as Trump tariff threat looms

  31-01-2025 00:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke said at a press conference that the Border Mayors Alliance aims to keep municipal perspectives front and centre in response to the tariffs.
  
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• Border fence erected along stretch of Canada-U.S. border now taken down

  30-01-2025 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  "Specifically, I felt that this type of fence, barrier, wall (whatever you want to call it) did not symbolize the trust that our two countries have shared for decades."
  
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• Video shows truck illegally hopping border amid rising Canada-U.S. tensions

  30-01-2025 03:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed to Global News that RCMP arrested five people after they entered Canada and were then transferred to the CBSA for processing.
  
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• Manitoba deploys conservation officers to U.S. border to shore up security

  27-01-2025 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Manitoba continues to increase security at the province's southern border with the U.S., with the announcement that provincial conservation officers will patrol the boundary.
  
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• ‘What the heck is that noise?’: New RCMP choppers patrol Manitoba border

  21-01-2025 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  The RCMP's new Black Hawk helicopters, intended to patrol the U.S.-Canada border near Emerson, Man., are already noticeable, municipal officials say.
  
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• U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont shooting near Canada

  21-01-2025 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  An injured suspect was taken into custody after the violence on Interstate 91 in Coventry, about 32 kilometres from the Canadian border, the FBI said in a statement.
  
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• The most significant executive orders Trump signed on day one of his second US presidency term

  21-01-2025 10:13
  
  Trump has declared an emergency at the southern border and rolled back trans rights as he signs dozens of executive orders from the Oval Office
  
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• Immigrants and U.S. cities prepare for Trump’s ‘devastating’ executive orders

  21-01-2025 02:15
  
  Immigrant communities prepare ‘know your rights’ training as Trump guts legal immigration pathways and promises far-reaching actions, Alex Woodward reports
  
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• What does a national emergency at the border actually mean?

  20-01-2025 18:16
  
  Trump’s executive order will surge troops and ‘erect physical barriers’ on the southern border
  
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• Trump’s day one executive orders take aim at immigration, trans rights and oil drilling. What we know

  20-01-2025 17:20
  
  Incoming officials outlined Trump’s plans to gut legal immigration pathways and roll back LGBT+ rights
  
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