• Someone@lemmy.ca
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    The thing I don’t understand is that they’re also clearly not dressed for the cold American winter either, it’s not like the climate cares about the border.

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      If they were, for instance, originally from Mexico, living in Arizona, and out of fear decided to drive as far north as possible, then get across the Canadian border in a place without roadblocks, they wouldn’t even own snow clothes. They might have originally thought they could stay in the car the whole way. Or a smuggler dumped them out of a truck in the middle of nowhere.

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        That’s how a family died here in Manitoba a few years ago… their “guy” dropped them off a little ways from the border for them to hoof it the rest of the way… Rcmp found them later frozen in a field. Worst part is they had an 11 year old and a baby with them.

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      They could have left travelling from a warmer state and just didn’t have/couldn’t afford warmer clothing.

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      I drive from Winnipeg to Iowa a lot and the difference is staggering.

      There isn’t snow on the fields until you are north of Grand Forks.

      A little further south and its sweater weather in January