RCMP reveals new video of migrant interception at Canada-U.S. border

The RCMP has released video of an interception of migrants illegally entering Canada from the United States as Ottawa ramps up border security amid growing pressure from the new Trump administration.

Aerial video first shared with Global News on Wednesday was taken from a surveillance aircraft as Mounties stopped the migrants near the Emerson border crossing in Manitoba last month.

The video shows thermal imaging of six people who were arrested crossing the border illegally in the middle of the night on Jan. 14.

The individuals are seen running into a wooded area, followed shortly afterward by RCMP officers who arrived in ground vehicles.

“With the RCMP plane directing officers on the ground, all six were arrested without incident and transferred to the CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency),” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Lisa Moreland, the northwest regional commander of federal policing, said at a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday.

“To …