Asylum Seekers Flee US for Canada

A Haitian refugee peeks out of the window of a tent set up by Canadian Armed Forces near the border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 10, 2017.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces carry floorboards into the tents they erected to house asylum seekers at the Canada-United States border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 9, 2017.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces install electricity for the tents erected to house asylum seekers at the Canada-U.S. border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 9, 2017.

A family who identified themselves as from Haiti are confronted by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer as they try to enter into Canada from Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, Aug. 7, 2017.

A family who identified themselves as from Haiti are confronted by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer as they try to enter into Canada from Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, Aug. 7, 2017.

A line of asylum seekers who said they were from Haiti wait to enter into Canada from Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, Aug. 7, 2017.

A young girl whose family said they were from Syria gathers her belongings at the US-Canada border in Champlain, New York, Aug. 7, 2017.

A woman carries a child out of a makeshift police station after crossing illegally into Canada, from the end of Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 7, 2017.

A line of asylum seekers who said they were from Haiti wait to enter into Canada from Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, Aug. 7, 2017.

A stuffed animal sits on the hill where tents are erected by the Canadian Armed Forces to house asylum seekers at the Canada-U.S. border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 9, 2017.

Tents erected by the Canadian Armed Forces to house asylum seekers at the Canada-United States border in Lacolle, Quebec, Aug. 9, 2017.