🇨🇦 Smugglers Running Migrants Across Quebec Border Like a Business

At 2 a.m. on January 22, 2025, an Indian national known as Shivam texted his American partner Bailey Burger: "Be ready. Four people." Court records reviewed by investigators reveal a sophisticated smuggling network operating along the Quebec-New York border near Hemmingford — live location sharing, safe houses, proof-of-life photos posted to social media as client testimonials. This is not desperation. This is logistics.

Burger admitted it was his fourth run and was being paid $100 USD per head to fund a drug habit. Shivam coordinated operations involving a pregnant woman among the clients. Among those eventually caught: six UK nationals, two Indian nationals, a seven-year-old child. Canada served as the staging ground. Our porous border, our slack enforcement culture, our decade of performative refugee policy — all of it made this supply chain possible. Roxham Road was closed in 2023 and the smugglers simply moved five kilometres west.

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