Canada prepares for influx of migrants following Trump's victory in US – Reuters

According to the news agency, former and now upcoming US President Donald Trump came to power this week partly due to his promise to carry out the largest deportation in American history.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Charles Poirier noted that the police had been preparing for this for months.

"We knew a few months ago that we had to start prepping a contingency plan because if he comes into power, which now he will in a few months, it could drive illegal migration and irregular migration into (the province of) Quebec and into Canada," he said.

Poirier emphasized that, in the worst case, people would be crossing the border in large numbers everywhere.

"Let's say we had 100 people per day entering across the border, then it's going to be hard because our officers will basically have to cover huge distances in order to arrest everyone," he explained.

Reuters noted that when Trump first came to power in 2017, thousands of asylum seekers crossed into Canada between official border points to apply for refugee status.

At the same time, immigration advocates explain that people moving from the US to seek asylum must sneak across undetected and remain hidden for two weeks before seeking refuge.

"When you don't create legitimate pathways, or when you only create pathways where people have to do the impossible to receive safety, you know, unfortunately, people are going to try to do the impossible," said Abdullah Daoud, director of the Refugee Centre in Montreal.

US Presidential election

Earlier this week, Donald Trump won the US presidential election by a significant margin.

It is now known that after his victory in the election, Donald Trump plans to bring familiar faces into his national security team. It is reported that the Republican does not intend to part ways with his former generals.