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posted by martyb on Friday April 21 2017, @12:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-away-from-it-all dept.

Canadian authorities caught 887 asylum seekers crossing unlawfully into Canada from the United States in March, nearly triple the number in January.

This brings the total number of asylum seekers caught walking across the border to 1,860 so far this year. The new statistics suggest those numbers could rise further as the weather warms.

Canada is on track to see the highest number of asylum claims in six years, given the pace of claims filed so far, as increasing numbers of people cross into Canada to make refugee claims in the wake of US President Donald Trump's election and his crackdown on refugees and migrants.

"The majority of irregular migrants are holders of visas for the United States," according to a statement released Wednesday from the office of Canada's Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

Isn't fleeing to Canada to escape what's happening in the US rather like fleeing to Poland to escape what happened in Germany?


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @12:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @12:25AM (#497137)

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    Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon
    Honey, it don't make no difference to me baby
    Everybody has to fight to be free, you see

    You don't have to live like an H1B
    Don't have to live like an H1B
    No baby you don't have to live like an H1B
    Don't have to live like an H1B

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