Interesting take on this. The government obviously didn't want thousands of people shown being handed out money, so they use security and stigmatization as reasons for changing the location. i have to assume that some of these people must have been working in the States, if not they were living on that government's assistance. They walk across the border and a week later we give them money. Does anyone see any problem with this ? Short of searching them, there is no way to know how much money they were bringing into the country. It's hard to believe that after taking bus rides and taxis to the border they had zero money left. Obviously with 8 thousand people there would be some who needed the government cheque, but with others it was simply a nice bonus and welcome to Canada.