Border Crossing
Border Crossing
Border Crossing
While the Southern border has made headlines, the border to the north is nearly as active, with millions of crossings a year, smuggling, trade disputes and asylum seekers heading both north into Canada and south into the United States in search of a better life.
![Canadian border patrol confront migrants from Cameroon and Uganda as they cross the border at Roxham Road with their luggage on March 1.](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Projects/Borderlines-2019/Border-Crossing/Border_Escape2Canada_Dickie-01.jpg)
Asylum-seekers, many French-speaking U.S. immigrants, have steadily been traveling to a rural road north of Plattsburgh, New York, in search of a safe haven in Canada.
![A mural inside The Potter’s House Christian Community Church in Niagara Falls. The church has opened its doors for almost 100 years to people in need, church pastor Stephan Booze said.](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Projects/Borderlines-2019/Border-Crossing/Border_Churches_Blanco-02-e1589341200723.jpg)
Niagara Falls at the crossroads of two nations
The picturesque tourist destination that straddles the U.S.-Canada border has its share of home-grown and imported social problems. Churches are stepping up to try to address those problems.
![Borderlines: U.S.-Canada border arrests by year and region](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Special-Projects/Borderlines-2019/Border-Crossing/border_numbers_featured.png)
The border by the numbers
Hundreds of thousands of people cross the U.S.-Canada border each year. We explore some of these data points in a series of visualizations about America's long and busy northern border.
![Nadeen Yousef shares her story of leaving Iraq to create a better life for her family in the United States as she now is the owner of her own macrame shop in Buffalo's West Side Bazaar.](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/buffalo_refugees_featured.jpg)
Migrants thrive at Buffalo’s West Side Bazaar
The Buffalo Bazaar brings together a melting pot of people from all over the world to New York's western edge.
![Quebec Borderlines Mosque](https://www.thenewshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/News/2019/BorderlineMosque/BorderlineMosqueRESIZEDNOTHUGEIMAGES/Steinman_AllyMoreoSequenceWEBRESMOSQUE-9.jpg)
Religious tolerance in jeopardy in Quebec
Quebec's new law makes it illegal for anyone working in the public sphere to wear religious symbols or clothing.