From all appearances, The bureaucracy in Canada is just as vulnerable to forgeries and fake IDs as the U.S. is. The only common thread that I can think of is "multiculturalism" and, unintended consequences.
Should we reexamine if the benefits outweigh the consequences?
Publius6961:
"From all appearances, The bureaucracy in Canada is just as vulnerable to forgeries and fake IDs as the U.S. is. The only common thread that I can think of is "multiculturalism" and, unintended consequences."
At the time that he came to Canada from the US, about 70 percent of refugee claimants came to Canada by land across the border from the US.
There was a similar flow the other way.
Once he made it into Canada, a refugee claimant could not be sent back to the US as he had no status there to oblige the US to accept him.
That let the refugee cook up whatever fanciful story that would impress the board to prevent him from being sent back to his actual home country.
The same situation applied southbound.
This allowed forum shopping across the "world's longest undefended border".
Canada and the US now have a deal to treat each other as safe third countries and to send such a claimant back across the border to make or complete his refugee status claim there.