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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, @08:16AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @08:16AM (#497304)

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

    Wut? Germans are fleeing to Poland because Germany is being taken over by middle-eastern immigrants. In the US, it is immigrants that are fleeing to Canada. These are exactly opposite scenarios.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @11:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @11:31AM (#497349)

    Now we are just waiting for Canadians to flee to Poland, or Germans to flee to US..

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 21 2017, @12:24PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday April 21 2017, @12:24PM (#497368) Journal

    Yes, Americans are fleeing to New Zealand, which makes a whole lot more sense. Canada? I mean, I love those guys but the country could be conquered with cross words. Put Jim Bob and Bubba in a pickup truck at the border, get 'em liquored up, point north and yell, "Squirrel!" and the country would fall in a fortnight.

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    Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 2) by dry on Monday April 24 2017, @04:40AM (1 child)

      by dry (223) on Monday April 24 2017, @04:40AM (#498655) Journal

      Yes, that's worked so well the few times you've tried it. Obviously you don't know Canada's history in the various wars, even our French haven't surrendered since 1763, longer then your country has existed. Unluckily you guys do have some good arms that give you a slight advantage, but then again we can walk amongst you and do have practice at burning down Washington

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 24 2017, @11:31AM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday April 24 2017, @11:31AM (#498776) Journal

        That was the British army, not the Canadian army.

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        Washington DC delenda est.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @01:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @01:26PM (#497378)

    Germans are fleeing to Poland because Germany is being taken over by middle-eastern immigrants.

    As a German living in Germany, I can tell you that none of the claims is true.

    First, Germans are not fleeing.
    Second, if Germans were fleeing, I'm pretty sure that for the vast majority of them, Poland currently would be one of the last choices to flee to.
    Third, it is also not true that Germany is being taken over by middle-eastern immigrants. Or by any immigrants at all.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @04:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @04:46PM (#497485)

      No they just rape, pillage and plunder. Except when they take time of to crush or bomb someone.
      But hey it's normal!