Maya Cholette-Tetrault is still wondering about the fate of a planned school trip to New York City being organized by École secondaire Robert-Gravel in Montreal’s Mile End district.
The mother and some other parents argue the trip should be cancelled because the political climate in the United States makes it unsafe, and points to what has happened to some visitors recently.
“Getting deported, detained, imprisoned,” she told Global News. “This is way outside of the usual guardrails that we are used to when we travel to the U.S.”
Cholette-Tetrault is worried about teens, including her two daughters, being profiled at the border. She believes the last names of her kids could make them vulnerable to profiling.
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More groups are responding to fears about travel south of the border, and in February, Collège Mont-Sacré-Cœur in Granby, Que., cancelled their trips because of Canada-U.S tensions, and last week Université de Montréal issued an advisory.
“In this particular context it worries me a lot that people feel subjectively, and in many cases for good reason, that their activities have been interfered with, or that they’re putting themselves at risk if they work in certain…
