Sixteen caught crossing illegally into U.S. from Quebec in days before Trump tariff threat

Dark image showing a group of four people walking at night with flashlights.

On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y.