Posted on 08/04/2017 11:21:57 AM PDT by Brilliant
Canada is on pace to process a record number of asylum seekers this year... as the country tries to keep up with a recent wave of Haitians crossing the border from the U.S.
Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil said Thursday the province has seen a sudden increase in Haitian refugees after the Trump administration said in May the U.S. will end its temporary protections for those displaced by Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010.
Ms. Weil said the pace of claims has tripled to 150 a day in the past two weeks, leading officials to scramble to find temporary accommodations for the asylum seekers. The province of Quebec is on track to process 12,000 asylum seekers in all of 2017, nearly as much as what the entire country handled last year.
The sudden surge of refugees in recent weeks into Montreal has forced local authorities to turn the city’s Olympic Stadium... into a temporary shelter on Wednesday. The stadium is equipped with enough cots, blankets and personal hygiene kits to accommodate 600 people...
“We have a strong, competent and experienced public and community network to deal with this type of situation and will offer dignified and safe care for these people during the processing of their asylum applications,” Ms. Weil said.
The province took in between 1,500 and 2,500 refugees last month. Most entered Canada from a makeshift border crossing about 50 miles south of Montreal on the Quebec-New York border. That compares to 180 people in July 2016...
The influx of Haitian refugees to Quebec mirrors a similar situation earlier in the year as hundreds of people, many from such African countries as Somalia and Djibouti, crossed illegally into Canada’s central province of Manitoba, braving subzero temperatures and snow-covered fields as U.S. President Donald Trump pushed to tighten immigration rules...
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Send to stay at Treuadue’s house.
I thought they like ‘asylum seekers’?
What’s the problem? I thought they loved immigrants.
Trudeau told them to come...and they come in droves. Dumb dumb...
Canada can have all of our Haitians.
We have plenty of muslims and Mexicans too.
Canada is a welfare state bleeding the last of its entrepreneurs dry. The truly wealthy old money families combine Canadian holdings - patriotically - and vast amounts in offshore shell companies. A few outfits such as “Shopify” earn fame from the State media (CBC: the only secure media employer in Canada) but “situation normal” if you are not a Doctor trying to move to the US is 1. government or union job, 2. insecurity, paycheck-to-paycheck, 3. welfare. Trudeaus “new Canadians” don’t have a chanceat anything but self-righteous neighbors and free money... And they know it.
Just don’t try to send them back here. You wanted them and now you’ve got your wish.
150 a day?
Get back to us when it’s two to three million per year.
Should prove a boon to the Canadian voodoo industry.
It’s funny that it’s such a small number and yet, they are overwhelmed.
It will be really funny come December when those Haitians learn that it gets real cold in Canada.
All ICE needs is to pass out free bus tickets to the Canadian border and let them walk across. You could clear out a few million before the snow flies.
Trudeau criticized us!
All these hard working and responsible Haitians leaving their tropical paradise to live in the cold north to make Canada great again!
What could go wrong?
Tighten our border with Canada, immediately.
Well, Trudeau, you hate Canada. Are you going to take full responsibility?
The WHITEST I’ve ever been to.
Maps, lots and lots of maps. We need to be handing out free maps to all those waiting south of the border. Airdrop them to all the 3rd world shit holes from Mehico south.
I read of two male Haitian "refugees" doubling up in a small Montreal apartment. They got $695 each and pay $700 between them for a small apartment. Last year the Quebec government got threatening on long term recipients of welfare. Saying they could get drastic monetary cuts if they did not try to get a job.
Any large city in Canada seems to have a lack of lots of affordable rental properties. What a mess!
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