American President Donald Trump announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status for about 60,000 Haitians effective July 2019, so some people are wondering whether Canada will see already-displaced Haitians cross the border to head north.

Icasiana de Gala is the Southwest Newcomer Welcome Centre's executive director and said if anyone came north, they'd likely head to larger centres first, where there are more legal and settlement services available.

Generally she said when immigrants come to the southwest part of Saskatchewan, they were in a larger centre first - like Regina or Saskatoon - and come here because they have friends or family in the area.

"if they cross the border, they probably want to go to the bigger communities because there could be more services there. Even legal and more settlement services in bigger communities. I'm not aware of any Haitian here at this time."

Emmanuel Dubourg - a Haitian-born Liberal MP in Montreal - has said there isn't a program in Canada catered to helping Haitian immigrants.

If Haitians came to southwest Saskatchewan, de Gala said "whether they're refugees or temporary foreign workers, permanent residents, we would definitely provide the needed support, and there are other organizations within the community that are very helpful in that regard. So definitely we would provide immediate basic help for them - for example food, then maybe looking for housing and all of that."

Canada offers refugee protection to people in the country fearing prosecution and are either unwilling or unable to return to their home country.

So far this year, 10 per cent of finalized refugee claims from Haitian nationls have been accepted - which is one third lower than in June - according to Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen.