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Latinos face trouble by calling 911 in border towns, group says | The Seattle Times

Latinos face trouble by calling 911 in border towns, group says | Local News | The Seattle Times.

A complaint filed this week with the Justice Department said many Latinos living in U.S. cities along the Canadian border have grown fearful of calling 911 because they know U.S. Border Patrol officers often respond with local police.

Many Latinos living in the northern border towns of Sumas, Blaine and Lynden have grown fearful of calling 911 in emergencies because they know that frequently U.S. Border Patrol officers who process those calls respond along with the local police.

 

That claim is contained in a civil-rights complaint a Whatcom County immigrant-advocacy group has filed against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the three cities.

 

The complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice claims the agency and the cities together violate the civil rights of Latinos by subjecting them to racial profiling and discriminatory treatment no other group has to endure.

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Roma take complex route via Europe, Mexico to seek asylum in Canada

In the news: Roma take complex route via Europe, Mexico to seek asylum in Canada

http://www.windsorstar.com/Roma+take+complex+route+Europe+Mexico+seek+asylum+Canada/7670455/story.html

A Dodge Caravan with California licence plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound lane unblocked by traffic.

Border agents could only watch as the van disappeared into Quebec. But the vehicle and its occupants didn’t try to disappear.

About 30 kilometres later, they stopped in a Walmart parking lot in Magog, Que., and asked someone to call the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When the Mounties arrived, the Roma occupants of the vehicle applied for political asylum.

“It’s as though they had it programmed into their GPS,” said Magog police spokesman Paul Tear.