‘We can’t leave her body’: Manitoba Ghanaians want to help after border crosser found dead

'We can't leave her body': Manitoba Ghanaians want to help after border crosser found dead
'It's just too dangerous': Death near the border was inevitable, US patrol agent says
Manitoba's Ghanaian community is looking for a way to help after a U.S. border guard found a woman's body less than a kilometre south of the Canadian border in Minnesota last week. Mavis Otuteye, 57, who police believe is a citizen of Ghana, died from 

Scott Webster, a deputy patrol agent in charge of the Pembina Border Station, walks past a gravel road where he has parked his truck to a long, empty drainage ditch in Minnesota. The ditch is less than a kilometre from the Manitoba border and it's …

Ghanaian woman found dead near US-Canada border was en route to see newborn granddaughter

When the body of Mavis Otuteye was found in a ditch roughly a mile from the Canadian border, officials said it's the type of tragedy they expect to see more and more. Rita Chahal runs the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, the largest refugee … . It is not clear whether Mavis Otuteye's intent was to claim asylum. But many asylum seekers bypass official ports of entry afraid they will be turned away. . MINNEAPOLIS — The body of a woman from Ghana was found just south of the Manitoban border in far northwestern Minnesota, and authorities suspect she died from exposure while trying to reunite with her daughter in Canada. Mavis Otuteye, 57, was

'It's just too dangerous': Death near the border was inevitable, US patrol agent says

Woman dies of possible hypothermia while heading to cross border into Canada
Woman dies of possible hypothermia while heading to cross border into Canada
The woman whose body was found this week near the Manitoba-Minnesota border by U.S. officials was trying to cross into Canada with the goal of reuniting with her daughter in Toronto, the Ghanaian Union of Manitoba said Thursday. Mavis Otuteye, 57, was

People still trying to cross border into Canada

KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. (Valley News Live) An investigation is underway after authorities found the body of a woman they believe was trying to cross into Canada from Minnesota. Officials say they got a call on May 25th about a missing woman from Kittson. More information is being learned about the Ghanaian woman who officials believe died trying to cross the border into Canada. Friends of Mavis Otuteye, 57, told CTV News that she was a religious woman and had been living in Delaware. Her friends say …
Dead asylum seeker was trying to reunite with daughter, granddaughter
Dead asylum seeker was trying to reunite with daughter, granddaughter
Heading toward Canada from Pembina, North Dakota, where refugees get dropped off by cab drivers from Grand Forks, North Dakota. (Photograph by Nick Iwanyshyn). WINNIPEG – The president of the Ghanian Union of Manitoba says a 57-year-old woman

An agreement between Canada and the United States is to blame for the recent death of Mavis Otuteye, a presumed asylum seeker found dead less than a kilometre from the Canadian border, a Winnipeg immigration lawyer says. "The Canada-U.S. Safe. A signpost for Emerson, Manitoba in February. Like other towns along the border, Emerson has experienced an upswing of refugee claimants since Donald Trump was elected. Photograph: Lyle Stafford/Reuters. Canada

A 57-year-old woman believed to be from Ghana was found dead near the U.S.-Manitoba border last week after officials say she likely attempted to cross into Canada. The Kittson County Sheriff's Department says Mavis Korkor Larnyoh Otuteye was last seen

NOYES, Minn. (AP) - Authorities say a woman who may have been trying to reach Canada was found dead in northwestern Minnesota. Kittson County Chief Deputy Matt Vig tells WDAZ-TV (http://bit.ly/2smrUJb ) that the woman, 57-year-old Mavis Otuteye
'It's just too dangerous': Death near the border was inevitable, US patrol agent says
'It's just too dangerous': Death near the border was inevitable, US patrol agent says

Mavis Otuteye's family in Ghana is reeling with news of her death in a drainage ditch as she tried to walk into Canada last week. "I don't believe my sister would die so soon," said Narteh Larnyoh, Otuteye's younger brother. "I'm upset about my sister … . When U.S. authorities found the body of Mavis Otuteye on Friday afternoon, she was in a ditch, about a kilometre from the Manitoba border. The 57-year-old Ghanaian woman had possibly succumbed to hypothermia since being reported missing in Kittson

Ghanaian woman found dead near Manitoba border reportedly …

EMERSON, Canada (Valley News Live) A woman was found dead in a field and authorities believe she was fleeing the U.S. to try and reach Canada. Already this year more than 600 people have come through our area and crossed into Canada that's 200

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