BeaverFever BeaverFever:
They should allow refugees to make a declaration for refugee status to the CBSA at the official border crossing. The current system doesn't allow that so you have these risky midnight runs through farmers fields.
And then what, politely wait at the border for their claim to be assessed ? Not going to happen.
Oh, let's let them walk in, and get all the gibs while they wait. That's better for you.
First there was one.
Then two.
Then 8, and now we hear about 3 main crossing points in Canada.
Now it's 16, and another report of 22 in Manitoba.
You can be sure the government will never release the information about how many
are crossing illegally into Canada.
The first illegal that has a deportation order in the US that gets asylum in Canada,
and that's it, it will look like Europe.
The only way to stop this is automatically repatriate every one of them back to the USA,
no questions asked.
And we all know that's not going to happen.
http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/left-with-no ... -1.3290135$1:
"Sometimes when you're left with no options and you're looking for a better life for yourself, people do take risks," said Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota.
A better life does not qualify you as a refugee. And illegally crossing the border should never be rewarded.
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"We know a lot of good things about Canadian people," said Mahamed Cali, who runs a local Somali-language radio station. "We like the prime minister of Canada, his generosity, and also Canadian people, how they open arms for everybody."
His generosity, paid for by Canadian taxpayers. Nice country shopping going on.
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Lawyers with local not-for-profits began have begun holding free weekly legal clinics at a community centre in a neighbourhood just outside downtown that has a big Somali population. An interfaith coalition is opening up places of worship as sanctuaries.
Abdinasir Abdulahi, an immigration lawyer in Minneapolis, said there was interest in Canada as an alternative before Trump's inauguration, and it has only picked up since then.
Which means they are organizing.
Just like Europe.