[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by direwolf

After the segment, Mansbridge said that they checked in on him after this was filmed. He's currently staying in a hotel in Winnipeg and is officially submitting his refugee claim as of tomorrow. I hope they'll let him stay, as the poor guy is clearly scared s--tless of having to go back to Somalia or the U.S.

Originally Posted by Drak

I hope they will. And I think the news story he's in will help.

Great article regarding the increase of illegal immigrants fleeing the US into the Canadian prairie.

Refugees, many of them by this point experienced border crossers—having started trekking from Brazil or Ecuador—take various routes to avoid detection through the fields and trees on the east side of Emerson, a town of 600 people. Some will walk through the Red River valley—or the river itself, when it’s low. Locals are used to seeing muddy, tired men and women with pant legs caked in mud and clay; sometimes, they’ll sleep in the wooden vestibule of the town’s Chinese restaurant, or on a park bench. One migrant told Maclean’s he walked overnight to a coffee shop in the next town, 15 km north.

Fathi Ismail walked another 80 km, all the way to Winnipeg, he says. He was 16 at the time, a Somalian whose diplomat father’s death in Saudi Arabia left 11 children orphaned. He’s brought his younger siblings over as sponsored refugees, is finishing his high school courses and wants to become a mechanical engineer. Ismail still cannot forget the Winnipeg immigration officers who brought him warm clothes and halal food. “In Saudi Arabia, they will shoot you at the border.”

http://www.macleans.ca/the-new-under...oad-to-canada/