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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @11:12AM
The problem is that these people will end up as a big drain on the Canadian welfare system (health care, school, subsidies etc) but can't not contribute anything substantial in the work market. In their trail criminality, terrorism and infections diseases follow. Realize that you can't help everybody.
Aid in their home country is way more efficient and emphasis on security, stability, health care and education usually works in the long term. While accepting them at home only bogs down the engine that could pay that help.
Vancouver btw seems to have problems with Chinese property buyers that squeeze out the working population in Canada by property pricing hikes. That will not work out long term either.