Asylum seekers fleeing US for Canada brave snow, extreme cold
By AFP
11 February 2017 |
3:00 pm
In the weeks following Donald Trump's inauguration, dozens of mostly African asylum seekers have crossed the vast US-Canada US-Canada illegally, walking through snowy fields and forests by night in temperatures as low as -30 degrees.
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