While the spotlight focused on the border territory of Akwesasne following the St. Lawrence River deaths of six foreign nationals and two Canadian children, smuggling networks continued to move people overland through a region east of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) community, U.S. court records show.
Canadian authorities recovered the bodies of four members of an Indian family and a Romanian couple with their two Canadian-born children from the St. Lawrence River on March 30 and 31. The two families are believed to have died trying to cross illegally into the U.S. by boat across the St. Lawrence River through Akwesasne.
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