Quebec nurse had to clean up after husband's death in Montreal hospital
On a night she should have been mourning, a nurse from Quebec's Laurentians region says she was forced to clean up her husband after he died at a hospital in Montreal.
Indian police have detained six people in a crackdown on illegal immigration after four Indians were found frozen to death near the border between the United States and Canada last week, officials said on Thursday.
Police in Gujarat said they identified the four, belonging to a single family, after law enforcement agencies on the border provided photographs of passports and other belongings.
"We are now trying to nab the human traffickers who managed to send this family and others abroad via illegal channels," said police official A.K. Jhala in the state capital of Gandhinagar.
The six detained by police were running a travel and tourism company in the state, he added.
U.S. authorities have charged a Florida man, Steve Shand, with human trafficking after the four -- a man, a woman, a baby and a teenager - were found dead in Manitoba, a few yards north of the frontier with Minnesota.
A U.S. court granted Shand conditional release on Monday.
The four were among four families from the same village who had travelled to the border this month.
Officials said they got separated from the group of 18 people and were probably caught in a blizzard, resulting in a tragedy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as "mind-blowing."
The situation came to light only when U.S. authorities intercepted the group and found one of them carrying a backpack with baby supplies, although there was no infant among them.
"The nexus of human trafficking runs deep, often involving local politicians too," said police official Jhala, adding that people even sell their land and homes to fund efforts to get to the United States or Canada.
A foreign ministry official in the India's capital New Delhi said authorities were coordinating with U.S. and Canadian border officials to investigate the illegal immigration case.
Crossings like this, into the United States from Canada, are relatively rare and getting rarer: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants trying to cross between ports of entry along the U.S.-Canada border dropped from 6,806 in 2009 to 916 in 2021.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehended 339 Indians trying to cross into the United States at the northern border in 2019, 129 in 2020 and 41 last year.
By contrast, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police apprehended 16,503 asylum-seekers crossing north between border crossings in 2019.
The seven Indian migrants U.S. authorities apprehended last week may be eligible for visas if they co-operate in Shand's prosecution, said Veena Iyer, executive director of the Immigration Law Center of Minnesota.
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