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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @01:10AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @01:10AM (#497160)

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

    That comparison falls flat when considering the realities which however may not be pretty but true and often non-intuitive. The fleeing into Canada is more comparable to fleeing from Thailand to Australia to live of other peoples taxes. During their stay these people will harass and exploit the citizens of the country and plot to overthrow the government or infect someone with multi resistant TBC. At the bottom line, their ability to ever contribute as a group in a industrial country is minuscule and so will always be a long term drain on taxes, transport and housing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @02:10AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @02:10AM (#497180)

    After 8 years as president of the US, Trump intends to Make Canada Great Again. No worries, mate!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @07:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @07:33AM (#497295)

      Canada is a lovely place and it's just a stone's throw away from me, but the drivers, holy shit, they're just batshit insane. No amount of Trump is going to make that better.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 21 2017, @12:20PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday April 21 2017, @12:20PM (#497366) Journal

      Anschluss! Embrace the suck, Winnipeg.

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      Washington DC delenda est.