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Another question worth looking into: what’s happened to LEGAL immigration? The kind of prospective immigrant who has gone through the previous channels in applying and then waiting for acceptance, probably based on a job skill they could bring?

Is that person still sitting in their overseas home waiting for the letter or phone call that tells the to come? In some cases, probably yes, and ironically, those are the type of immigrant that you probably want to receive; in other cases, probably not, they say, well I wanted to go to America and all I need to do is show up at the border or an airport, and apply for asylum, or disappear into the throngs.

So another question, while we’re focussed on border jumpers, how any illegal immigrants are coming in by “pretend tourist” status where you just show up as a tourist and never go home? This is almost exclusively how Canada gets illegal immigrants but so far the government response here is about the same as what it was before this new paradigm, in other words, it is still not acceptable and “missing” tourists in country are being hunted and if intercepted, deported.

In Canada, the immigration situation is a political issue where different parties have different levels of immigration they would support, but I don’t perceive that even our more progressive parties are into open borders or unlimited illegal immigration. The reason for the difference is that we don’t have an easily penetrated border with thousands of illegals swarming it, so more by luck than skill, we don’t have this magnitude of problem. Yet. I feel like it’s only a matter of time until our progressives start enabling a larger flow, but up until now, the question of size of flow is within legal boundaries, in other words, if a voter doesn’t agree, there are alternatives.