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Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal.
CTV News reports that the rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States is set to expire over the next few weeks and months.
Data from Canada Border Services Agency shows the number of asylum claims at the point of entry has increased since the start of the year.
1356 applications were received in March and 557 claims were made as of Saturday for April.
A spokesman for a Montreal-based group that helps undocumented migrants, Frantz Andre, says there has been a rise in would-be refugees coming to Canada since the election of US President Donald Trump in November.
