The Pembina–Emerson Border Crossing is a United States-Canada port of entry (POE) that connects the U.S. city of Pembina, North Dakota and the Canadian community of Emerson, Manitoba.

The Canadian and American governments closed the Emerson East and Noyes border stations in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and merged rail inspection operations with the ports at West Lynne and Pembina.

The upgrades at the border station were completed in 2018; however Manitoba's provincial government remains in the process of redeveloping PTH 75 at Emerson.

The fort is a former Canadian police post and base for the North American Boundary Commission, which surveyed and marked the international border as defined in the Treaty of 1818.

[7] The number of persons crossing the border illegally into Canada (referred to as "irregular migrants") through the Emerson-Pembina-Noyes area increased significantly following then-U.S. President Donald Trump's Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States executive order in January 2017.

[8][9] The majority of recent irregular migration has been by migrants from African nations seeking asylum in Canada to avoid potential deportation from the U.S.

[10] In January 2022, four members of an Indian family, including an infant, were found dead in a field near the border approximately ten kilometres (six miles) east of Emerson.

The family was part of a larger group attempting to enter the U.S. during a cold spell in which local overnight temperatures had dropped to −35 °C (−31 °F) with the wind chill.