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And, of course, there's Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian member of a Montreal al-Qaida cell. He spent six years in Canada, living off robberies plus welfare, free health care and other perqs provided refugee claimants. He was trained in Afghanistan and was finally caught in late 1999 by U.S. border guards while trying to cross into the U.S. with a carload of explosives on his way to blow up Los Angeles airport.

And if you've had a DUI in the US, the Canadians won't even let you across the border for a visit (without a whole bunch of red-tape b.s.)

Reagan Man: "The exposure of Canada's open immigration policy reduces the US, Canada border to an open sore for the US."

TheHeterodoxConservative:
"And if you've had a DUI in the US, the Canadians won't even let you across the border for a visit (without a whole bunch of red-tape b.s.)"

An interesting datum:
Seventy percent of refugee claimants enter Canada by land across the border from the United States. It does not seem to matter that the US is a safe harbour.

So, if you want to get into Canada, just claim refugee status. If will take years for you to exhaust the appeal remedies and extraordinary remedies. Once you have exhausted your remedies and have been served with deportation process you can either disappear as have many failed claimants (Canada trusts deportees to turn themselves in for transportation) or you may simply take a holiday back home with Canada paying the air fare then simply come back and start afresh with new grounds. (Everybody knows the grounds are fiction anyway).

Another interesting datum:
Often a successful refugee claimant, once he has been granted Canadian landing documents, goes back home for a holiday to tell all his relatives and friends what a sweet deal it is.