By Brian Hill Global News
Many people, including Canadian politicians, are still trying to come to grips with the fact that a family of four with two children froze to death while trying to cross the border from Canada into the United States last week.
But those who understand human migration best say it was only a matter of time before someone died. Years of warnings about restrictive border measures and criminalization of migrants have fallen on deaf ears, they say.
“This time it wasn’t frostbite or lost fingers and toes. This time an entire family died,” said Craig Damian Smith, a migration expert and senior research associate at Ryerson University.