The immigration crisis the United States is facing isn’t just on the southern border. While people illegally entering through the southern border encounter risks including heat, dehydration, and drug cartels, there are people also attempting to come in across the northern border. These people also face hazards, not least of which is sub-zero temperatures.
Jagdish Patel and his wife Vaishaliben, along with their two children, learned this the hard – and permanent – way when they froze to death in the depths of the northern winter, while trying to meet their ride into the United States:
On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border.
Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India…
