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The RCMP has spent more than $6.6 million over the past two years to process asylum-seeking migrants at Canada’s busiest illegal border crossing in Lacolle, Que., documents show.

The bulk of the money is for overtime and maintaining a satellite office, but funds have also been spent on buses to transport the migrants, as well as diapers, baby food and car seats.

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According to federal data, RCMP members apprehended 19,419 asylum seekers last year who had entered Canada between official ports of entry. The vast majority of apprehensions — 18,518 — were along the Quebec-U.S. border. That number was only marginally lower than the 2017 total of 18,836.

“Numbers (of border crossers) are slightly lower … but our members are still busy,” Sgt. Camille Habel, an RCMP spokeswoman in Quebec, said in an email.

The National Post submitted an access-to-information request in November for a breakdown of costs incurred by the RCMP in Quebec since the number of irregular border-crossing migrants started to rise in August 2016.