Cross-border asylum seekers trickle into Edmonton

Shuaieb Abara, his wife, Malak Tantush, 26, and their sons, Bashir, 3, and Adam, 2, live in Edmonton. They’re among the thousands of refugee claimants who’ve walked across the American border and sought asylum in Canada since the election of Trump as U.S. president.
Between January 2017 and December 2017, RCMP apprehended 20,593 asylum seekers who’d crossed the border “irregularly” into Canada. (It’s not actually illegal to cross the border and file a refugee