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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, @12:38AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @12:38AM (#497146)

    There are tech jobs in the tech industry!

    Lies! How fucking stupid do you think we are, eh?

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @12:41AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @12:41AM (#497147)

    Oh christ. The refugees found Tim Horton's and they're gone native already.

    • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday April 21 2017, @01:18AM (7 children)

      by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Friday April 21 2017, @01:18AM (#497163) Journal

      Timmy's!! I haven't been at a Tim Horton's since the Burger King buyout. Are they still okay, or do you now get your Timbits flame-broiled?

      • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday April 21 2017, @02:40AM (1 child)

        by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday April 21 2017, @02:40AM (#497191)

        They are more of a sandwich shop than doughnut shop now.

        • (Score: 2) by drussell on Friday April 21 2017, @05:20AM

          by drussell (2678) on Friday April 21 2017, @05:20AM (#497248) Journal

          They are more of a sandwich shop than doughnut shop now.

          Their sandwiches are terrible...

          ... and most of the stores don't even make the doughnuts fresh, in-house anymore!

          Sad! How very sad!! :)

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday April 21 2017, @04:53AM (4 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Friday April 21 2017, @04:53AM (#497240) Journal

        I am slowly coming to the conclusion that almost all the sane persons on SoylentNews, with the exception of Snow and Gaark, are Canadians. Boggles the mind, it does. After the Great White North, and the MacKenzie Bros subsequent movie (what was it called, again?), and the total destruction of the Possum Lodge after the end of the Red Green Show, what could Canada have to offer, that it already did not prostitute to the Whore of Babylon to the south, like William Shatner, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, and Alec Trudeau? But maybe that is it. My theory about the (formerly) liberal and intelligent nature of the Nederlands: they shipped all their religious wacko crazies to the southern Africa. They became the "Afrikaans", because being Dutch and Religious, they could not spell. The United States tried the same ploy, but only sent the wackos to places like Waco, the Southern States. Big mistake. So it makes sense that any refugee would prefer Canadia to the US, just because of racism, Trump, crazy Alex Jones large Chili bowl eaters, and Bill o'Reallies. I mean, it does not make sense, after all, to seek asylum, in an asylum.

        • (Score: 2) by drussell on Friday April 21 2017, @05:24AM

          by drussell (2678) on Friday April 21 2017, @05:24AM (#497249) Journal

          I am slowly coming to the conclusion that almost all the sane persons on SoylentNews, with the exception of Snow and Gaark, are Canadians. Boggles the mind, it does.

          Canuckistan++

          !!! :)

        • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 21 2017, @12:19PM

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday April 21 2017, @12:19PM (#497365) Journal

          Canada is the Woody Allen of the North America, sitting in the passenger seat with Mexico while America drives [youtube.com], tempted to drive into the oncoming lights.

          --
          Washington DC delenda est.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @08:42PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @08:42PM (#497579)

          Strange Brew. The movie was called Strange Brew.