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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @02:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @02:16AM (#497182)

    Universities are also flooded. Time to utilize the same tool with entrance exams for border entry?

    And of course exploring these questions:
      * Have you ever been involved with any extremist organization?
      * Is violence alright for a woman to divorce or for someone saying things you don't like?
      * Should the laws be dictated by theocratic rules?
      * Do your honor depend on who your children associate with? which type of maiming right to uphold it?
      * Which clan are you loyal to?
    etc..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @03:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @03:15AM (#497205)
    You might as well take in the most persecuted.

    So you'd take in the Yazidis and not the Iraqi Shia Muslims and certainly not the Iraqi Sunni Muslims.

    And you might wish to prefer the atheist gay ones. Gay Yazidi atheists are definitely less likely to suicide bomb you later on. Less likely to raise children who'd suicide bomb you. From what I gather not as many openly gay people raise children, and if they do they tend to do a better job than average (it's not some fuck condom failed, looks like I have kids now).