The young Syrian family dragged luggage and pushed their daughter in a stroller through the snow in about -15C weather. The family will be brought to the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing and then to an immigration detention centre in Laval for about 48 hours. The family's daughter is put into a vehicle after crossing the border into Quebec in subzero temperatures early Saturday morning. According to the CBSA, there were 368 asylum-seekers entering Quebec from the U.S. in Nov. 2016, by December that number jumped to 593. It was created so that refugee status can only be claimed in the first safe country someone arrives in.
Source: CBC News February 11, 2017 15:51 UTC