One woman spends hours at the US border in rural New York every day, outfitting immigrants with knitted hats and gloves before they flee to Canada

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• Over the last two years, as Americans' attention has turned to the country's southern border, one tiny road along the northern border has become a hotspot for asylum-seekers looking for safety and a better life in Canada.
• Migrants from around the world have been coming to the village of Champlain in upstate New York for a chance to cross the US-Canada border and request asylum.
• Champlain's deputy mayor, Janet McFetridge, has personally greeted hundreds of them, staking out the border-crossing almost every single day and bidding migrants farewell with hats and winter wear.
• "It's just so many separate stories and separate wishes and hopes and dreams, and people just like all of us just wanting a better life for their families," she told INSIDER.

CHAMPLAIN, NY — Janet McFetridge dumps a handful of trash on the driver's seat of her car, pointing to the used credit cards, bus tickets, and scrunched-up bits of paper.

She can't bring herself to throw them away. They're the only traces of a long journey that asylum-seekers have left behind in the United States as they fled to Canada for their lives.

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