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Olympic Stadium In Montreal Turned Into Welcome Center For Refugees From U.S.

Asylum seekers have flooded from the U.S. to Quebec — mostly Haitians, worried about their status under the Trump Administration. Now a famous stadium is equipped with cots to help handle the surge.
Montreal's iconic Olympic Stadium, photographed in 2012, is now providing housing for newly arrived asylum seekers entering Canada from the U.S.

Faced with a flood of asylum seekers traveling from the United States into Quebec, Canada, local authorities have repurposed Montreal's Olympic Stadium and turned it into a refugee welcome center.

A spokesperson for PRAIDA, the local government agency that helps refugees, more than 1,000 asylum seekers crossed the border into Quebec last month. "In comparison, PRAIDA helped

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