This is strange. I thought Canada was accepting of every migrant/illegal who wanted to come to Canada. I remember them giving Donald Trump grief over his attempts to limit people coming across the border. I also remember that Justin Trudeau removed the visa requirement for Mexican nationals, which has helped drive this shady asylum migration
Canada weighing extra border measures for asylum seekers from Mexico – minister
Canada is weighing a number of measures to prevent Mexican nationals from flying into the country to request asylum, a top official said on Sunday, after Quebec’s premier said earlier this week the lack of visa requirements for Mexican travelers meant more refugees were arriving by plane.
Speaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he and the Immigration Minister Marc Miller were considering visas and other measures.
The two ministers are looking for “the appropriate way to ensure that people who arrived from Mexico arrived for the appropriate reasons and that this doesn’t become sort of a side door to get access to Canada,” LeBlanc said.
“We’re looking at a number of measures that would, in fact, put us in a position to have done what’s necessary to ensure that these flights directly from Mexico don’t become sort of an indirect way to get access to Canada and to claim asylum,” he added.
In other words, they want to stop all those migrants/illegals from flying in with a stated other reason and then declaring asylum, at which point Canada has to spend gobs of money to support them
In a letter last week, Quebec Premier Francois Legault urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stem the flow of refugees into the province and to compensate it for costs, claiming Quebec’s services were close to a “breaking point” due to the rising number.
“Mexican nationals represent a growing proportion of the asylum seekers arriving in Quebec, the possibility of entering Canada from Mexico without a visa certainly explains part of the flow of asylum seekers,” Legault wrote in the letter.
Canada is also learning a valuable lesson on not controlling their border and sovereignty. I’ve been reliably told that restricting migration is raaaaacist and just mean. By the way, where are all these poor migrants getting all the money to fly to Canada? Do they realize it’s pretty cold? Canada has actually been pretty careful as to who they let in, wanting skilled workers who will assimilate, not unskilled who need government services. Further, how many of those unskilled who show up in Canada end up sneaking across the border into the U.S.?
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