Migrants’ Dash for Canada Slows as More Are Sent Back to US

A worker surveys the Roxham Road area at the Canada-US border in the control room at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Montreal.Photographer: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg

The flow of asylum-seekers arriving in Canada via upstate New York has plunged, a sharp reversal from the summer months when a surge of thousands of people tried to get through the Canadian border.

Migrants now face a greater chance of being sent back to the US, where they can wind up being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s fueling a debate in Canada over whether the government’s tougher stance on immigration is the right approach.