Hundreds are walking across the border from New York into Canada in what refugee agencies say is an effort to flee Trump's policies.
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An RCMP officer checks the documents of two women from Sudan after they illegally crossed the Canada-US border near Hemmingford, Quebec, Feb. 26, 2017.
Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the U.S. border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, Turkey or Sudan, according to the United Nations' refugee point man in the country.
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The two women became emotional while being detained.
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An RCMP officer speaks with the women.
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A meandering fence loosely marks the U.S.-Canada border near Hemmingford, Quebec, Feb. 28.
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The Canadian-U.S. border near Hemmingford, Quebec, is seen on Feb. 26.
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A gate blocks access to Meridian Road leading to Champlain, New York from the Canadian side of the Canada-U.S. border, Feb. 27.
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A family of four from Pakistan walk down Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, towards the U.S.-Canada border, Feb. 28.
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A family of four from Pakistan prepares to cross the border.
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The mother of this family from Pakistan speaks with officers.
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An officer adjusts the hood of a little girl, part of the family of four from Pakistan.
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The family is led away by RCMP officers after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border, Feb. 28.
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RCMP officers look on as an extended family of seven people from Turkey illegally cross the border just before dawn on Feb. 28.
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RCMP take members of an extended family of seven people from Turkey into custody after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border just before dawn on Feb. 28.
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A family from Colombia is arrested by the RCMP after illegally crossing the border.
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The father is arrested, Feb. 28.
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An officer handcuffs a man from Syria after he and his family illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border, Feb. 27.
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An officer searches the 18 year-old Syrian woman.
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The man hugs his daughter while being detained.
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An RCMP officer reads the family from Syria their rights after they were arrested for illegally crossing the border near Hemmingford, Quebec, Feb. 28.