— Roxham Road is a quiet country road jutting off another quiet country road, where a couple of horses munch on soggy hay<br />and a ditch running along the muddy pavement flows with melted snow.<br />“I used to hunt along the border,” said Parker Cashman, who was staying with Mr. Turner, “and there’s too many places where it’s too easy to cross.”<br />“Maybe we need to build a wall!” Mr. Turner replied, jokingly.<br />Since Trump, Quiet Upstate Road Becomes a Busy Exit From U. S. -<br />Residents of Champlain, N. Y., watch as migrants, both adults and children, use a country road to reach Canada, where they can seek asylum.<br />“People just want to live their life,” Mr. Crowningshiele, 48, said, “and not be scared.”<br />Given their proximity to Canada, people around here have always had some awareness of the world beyond the border.<br />An agreement between the United States and Canada makes it virtually impossible for them to ask<br />for asylum at a legal border crossing; Canadian border officials would have to turn them back.<br />Migrants have been coming to places like Roxham Road not<br />because they want to sneak over the border; the expectation is to walk right into the arms of the Canadian authorities.<br />“It’s almost like this road doesn’t exist,” said Mr. Turner, a 21-year-old warehouse worker.<br />But in recent weeks, riders have been asking him — two, three, sometimes as many as seven times a day — to bring them to the end of Roxham Road.<br />“I think what he set out to do, he’s doing,” Mr. Hogle, 54, said of Mr. Trump.
