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* During [[World War II]], airmen from the Allied Powers who were shot down over Occupied Europe would often find themselves being hidden and protected by members of various [[La Résistance|resistance groups]], who would try to smuggle them back to England or to a neutral country such as Switzerland or Sweden.
** Counter-intuitively, the easiest path back to England was ''not'' across the English Channel, but rather a lengthy and difficult trip through Occupied France, Vichy France, and neutral Spain to the Mediterranean, due to the density of German defenses and patrols along the French coastline.
* In 2017, hundreds if not thousands of refugee claimants covertly (and eventually overtly) crossed the US-Canada border after [[Donald Trump]] repeatedly commented on his intentions to remove various non-citizens from the country. ''[[The New Yorker]]'' called this "[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/the-underground-railroad-for-refugees The Underground Railroad for Refugees]". For many of these refugees, especially those whose refugee claims had already been denied by the USA, [[Defied Trope|it didn't work]]; crossing the border illegally was enough for them to be deported from Canada.
* And then there's the "[https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/canada-chechnya-gay-asylum/article36145997/ Rainbow Railroad]", bringing homosexuals from countries where they face imprisonment or worse simply for being non-heterosexual to countries with freedom of sexual orientation.
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