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ST-BERNARD-DE-LACOLLE — The sign at the end of Roxham Rd. says “no pedestrians.”

But the tracks in the snow leading in from the U.S. border tell a different story — of families with strollers and suitcases crossing on foot into Canada along a new underground railway that leads straight to Hemmingford.

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On Thursday alone, 19 people had crossed the border at this unmanned and isolated spot, through frigid temperatures, including four Turkish men, a Sudanese group of seven and another family of four of unknown origin ­— and this, by 10 a.m.

For Marcel Pelletier, the RCMP officer waiting for them on the Canadian side, it was business as usual.

“These parents are leaving behind everything they have,” Pelletier says, just a few feet from where a frozen creek and a white obelisk separate the two countries. “They don’t understand my English or my French, but you just try to communicate with them without scaring the kids.”