The pre-dawn name by U.S. border brokers to their Canadian counterparts was stunning: A gaggle of 9 individuals, most of them kids, had been about to enter Canada on foot.
On Feb. 3 at 6:16 a.m., when the group was noticed, the border between Alberta and Montana was brutally uninviting, coated in snow, darkish with a temperature of minus 17 levels Fahrenheit.
Grainy night-vision pictures captured by Canadian border cameras confirmed two little ladies in pink winter put on holding a girl’s hand as they trudged by the snow. Extra kids adopted in a line. One other grownup dragged two suitcases.
The fast intervention by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police crew that discovered the group was the results of a newly beefed-up border presence throughout the huge frontier between the USA and Canada. At 5,525 miles, the border is the world’s longest.
Till not too long ago, the border had been described by each nations as “unguarded,” a testomony to their shut friendship.