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• Canada warns First Nations people to carry passport when crossing U.S. border

  21-02-2026 00:57 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government updated its travel advice for the U.S. and is now urging First Nations people to carry a passport, in addition to a status card, when crossing the border.
  
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• Drug seizures at Canada-U.S. border dropping, Congress hears

  01-07-2026 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Acting Deputy Chief Jason Schneider told the House committee that seizures at the U.S.' northern border had dropped by 55 per cent compared to last year.
  
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• Supreme Court delivers dual blows to immigrants in big win for Trump’s deportation campaign

  25-06-2026 17:02
  
  Major decisions impacting asylum seekers and humanitarian protections for Haitians and Syrians could have far-reaching consequences for immigrants and their families
  
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• Catholic diocese tries to stop Trump’s border wall that ‘desecrates’ 29-foot tall Jesus statue

  22-06-2026 00:57
  
  ‘Nothing could be less Catholic’ than a ‘physical manifestation’ of the administration’s attitude toward migrants, lawyer say
  
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• Popular California beach closed for more than 1,000 days due to toxic sludge coming from Mexican river

  09-06-2026 18:00
  
  Local activists have accused the government of not doing enough to protect them from the toxic water
  
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• Six migrants were found dead in a Texas train car. An arrest could crack the case

  18-05-2026 01:16
  
  Victims hailed from Honduras and Mexico and ranged in age from 14 to 56
  
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• ICE hands members of Congress new memo blocking detention center visits — while they’re trying to get in

  12-05-2026 02:53
  
  Lawmakers turned away from speaking with detainees during oversight visit of Otay Mesa detention center despite court rulings
  
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• Quebec coroner says Brazilian woman died of hypothermia near border in 2024

  30-04-2026 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  A Quebec coroner says Canadian officials turned away a Brazilian woman at border crossings three times in the days before she died of hypothermia near the U.S. border in 2024. 
  
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• ‘Prison conditions’: B.C. mom says of U.S. detention centre in Texas

  24-03-2026 00:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  Originally from B.C., Tania Warner and her seven-year-old daughter Ayla, have been in U.S. immigration detention since they were stopped by border agents in Texas on March 14.
  
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• Canadian border shooting: New Hampshire man charged after shot fired at U.S. agent

  25-02-2026 17:02 via globalnews.ca
  The 26-year-old suspect has been charged with one count of attempted murder of a federal officer and one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
  
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• Canada warn First Nations people to carry passport when crossing U.S. border

  21-02-2026 00:57 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government updated its travel advice for the U.S. and is now urging First Nations people to carry a passport, in addition to a status card, when crossing the border.
  
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• Non-Americans now paying more to visit U.S. national parks – will Canadians stay away?

  09-01-2026 02:11 via globalnews.ca
  'It does appear to be yet another roadblock towards Canadians visiting the United States,' McKenzie McMillan, managing partner at The Travel Group in Vancouver, told Global News.
  
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• Non-Americans now paying more to visit national parks, so will Canadians stay away?

  09-01-2026 02:11 via globalnews.ca
  'It does appear to be yet another roadblock towards Canadians visiting the United States,' McKenzie McMillan, managing partner at The Travel Group in Vancouver, told Global News.
  
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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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