Sydney Jones-Mason sits with her family from Minnesota.
New temporary measures are being introduced to make crossing the border easier for Indigenous peopleThe federal government is putting in new temporary measures at the border to make cross-border mobility for Indigenous people easier.
"There are families that currently are divided by the border or face burdens on a daily basis," said Miller. Sydney Jones-Mason is from Couchiching First Nation in northwestern Ontario and has family that lives in Minnesota. "With our status cards, we're able to freely cross the border whenever we please without any type of barriers. And that's how I was able to live across the border was that I had my status card and I was able to basically be a dual citizen."Family in Aklavik, N.W.T., hopeful after minister says Indigenous people have right to move freelyJones-Mason said it's also harder for Americans to get into Canada than for them to get back into America.
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