The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says a network of suspected Turkish smugglers has been operating to bring mostly Haitian asylum seekers illegally into Quebec over the last few months.

“The investigation started a few months ago,” said Sgt. Hugo Lavoie of the RCMP. “We have members on the border patrolling and they were intercepting migrants and also criminals, and we realized that a lot of them were linked together.”

On Sunday, the RCMP arrested two Turkish nationals allegedly involved in a smuggling scheme near Valleyfield, which saw 11 Haitian asylum seekers intercepted in two cars.

Earlier this month, police intercepted a cube truck after receiving information about a group of 44 migrants planning to cross the border from the United States.

Among the migrants were a pregnan

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