After an unprecedented spike in the number of asylum seekers crossing the border into Quebec illegally in early August, the Canada Border Services Agency says those numbers are now dropping. Border agents are now handing the claims of 50 to 100 asylum seekers per day. Compare that to the beginning of the month, when as many as 1,200 people were waiting to be processed at the border crossing in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que. Before the surge in the number of people crossing into Canada began, agents were handling about a dozen asylum claims daily. Last week, Cornwall, Ont., Mayor Leslie O'Shaughnessy announced the tent city pitched outside the Nav Centre to make room for asylum seekers will remain empty until further notice.

Source: CBC News August 31, 2017 17:26 UTC