In the Potton region of Estrie, more and more people are attempting to enter the United States to seek asylum and move in with relatives.
These people, who come from different countries, sometimes do so at the risk of their lives.
At the end of the week, a man was rescued in a state of hypothermia and frostbite in the Chemin Laplume woods. There he got lost in the middle of a storm and was a mile from the Vermont border.
Last week, the RCMP reportedly intercepted a Mexican couple attempting to cross the border through the forest at the end of Chemin du Pont Couvert. Through the forest it is possible to reach the town of North Troy. However, the distance to be covered is long, about six or seven kilometers.
Participating in such an exercise is extremely dangerous because the Missisquoi River cuts through part of the forest.
Normand Handfield lives on the Chemin du Pont Couvert.
On the evening of January 14, he rescued a woman from Burkina Faso. In the middle of the night, the seven-month pregnant woman knocked on her door. Getting lost in a taxi from Montreal, she said she was going to the United States to join her husband.
Last Saturday, a Montreal taxi with a black woman in the back seat was waiting around the corner. The vehicle started with a bang as Mr. Handfield approached it.
A clerk at a grocery store in the village of Potton told us she called the RCMP a month and a half ago.
A man she believes to be of Haitian descent, caught with a cold and lost, asked customers to drive him near the border.
In North Troy, Vermont, US Border Patrol agents confirmed in early January that they had detained a couple and their four young children attempting to enter the United States. They were stopped on the American side south of Mansonville.