A lucrative and growing cross-border human smuggling market is attracting domestic and international criminal organizations looking to cash in on moving “vulnerable” people from Canada into the United States, according to the senior RCMP officer who oversees border policing.
Chief Supt. Mathieu Bertrand, head of Serious and Organized Crime and Border Integrity at RCMP Federal Policing, said the force has recently recorded an “immense amount of intercepts” of cross-border smuggling attempts headed south, particularly across the Ontario-Quebec border with New York state and Vermont.
“There’s a lot of money to be made to smuggle individuals across our borders,” Bertrand said.
“There are multiple organized
