Refugees in Quebec: Unmarked ditch is now a reception centre

The scene greeting asylum seekers at a popular illegal border crossing point in Quebec on Thursday was vastly changed from that of a few months earlier.
What used to be an unmarked ditch monitored by one or two RCMP patrol cars had turned into a makeshift reception centre in response to the surging number of asylum seekers crossing the border at Hemmingford in the last two weeks.
Folding chairs and bottles of water were available for border crossers in a large white tent as they waited to board