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REFUGEES POSE 'POTENTIAL CRISIS'
The Windsor Star (Ontario, Canada) ^ | Sunday, November 4, 2007 | Doug Schmidt and Dave Battagello

Posted on 11/04/2007 2:46:42 PM PST by sinanju

With city shelters filled and a surge of further refugee claimants expected to flood into Windsor, Mayor Eddie Francis is pleading for financial help from Ottawa.

"When there is a possibility of adding thousands to the local social assistance system as a result of refugee claimants crossing the border into Windsor, we will become overwhelmed and our current resources will not suffice," Francis wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Over the past three weeks, 45 families and 31 individuals -- approximately 200 people -- entered Canada at the Detroit River crossings and applied in Windsor for shelter and social assistance after filing refugee claims with the Canada Border Services Agency. Municipal agencies dealing with the sudden influx of mainly Mexican refugee applicants are renting out hotel rooms and bracing for predicted thousands more to come.

"We don't have the means, ability or capacity to deal with this additional cost. We are not able to deal with this potential crisis locally," Francis wrote Harper.

"I don't believe that Windsor's residents and taxpayers should have to foot the bill for U.S. immigration policy," Francis told The Star. He was referring to the suspected source of the problem -- a recently begun crackdown on illegal immigrants in economically struggling regions of the U.S. South.

(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; canada; immigration; mexico; refugees
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"But a group operating out of Naples, Fla., vowed to continue sending the so-called economic refugees to Windsor.

"They ask, 'Is Canada an option?' and I say, 'Yes, it is an option,'" Jacques Sinjuste of the Jerusalem Haitian Community Center said in a phone interview Wednesday. For a US$300 "donation" (most of those interviewed in Windsor claim they paid US$400), JHCC staff download forms off the Internet, help applicants fill them out and give directions on how to get to the Canadian border.

Sinjuste said he's simply providing a "referral" service.

"Most of the time when the people come, they say they've heard something (about Canada). I say that I've heard the same thing," he said."

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What we've got here is a specifically Miami-based "snakehead" that's been ripping off illegals to the tune of $400 per to send them off to Canada with promises of refugee status, rather than a mass northward migration from all over the U.S. to "shake 'de Lion's paw" as our ancestors of the underground railroad put it (I've been reading about Harriet Tubman).

I know that Canada has a strict "point system" for determining the viability of immigrants but fatally generous refugee admissions criteria.

1 posted on 11/04/2007 2:46:43 PM PST by sinanju
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“I don’t believe that Windsor’s residents and taxpayers should have to foot the bill for U.S. immigration policy.”

Why don’t you lay the blame where it belongs. No taxpayers should have to foot the bill for Mexico’s inability to shape up and provide a decent place to live for its own citizens.


2 posted on 11/04/2007 2:53:19 PM PST by keepitreal
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"But a group operating out of Naples, Fla., vowed to continue sending the so-called economic refugees to Windsor.

What an enterprise..., charge them $500-$1,000/head to smuggle them into the USA..., now $300-400/head to ship them to Canada!

3 posted on 11/04/2007 2:54:56 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: sinanju
This is what's called self-deportation. Better STATE laws in the US, making up for Congress' failures to act, leads the Mexicans to take off for other states. Since Canada is a squish nation for people who sneak in, it becomes a target also.

This Canadian bureaucrat is complaining about American immigration policy. If he had a grip on the big picture, he would be complaining about Canadian immigration policy. But then, if he could see the big picture, he wouldn't be a bureaucrat. He would have quit long ago to work in the real world.

Did I miss anything?

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Ma, They're Makin' Eyes at Me"

Here's my announcement of running for Congress in 2008.

4 posted on 11/04/2007 2:55:20 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: sinanju; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
Say what?

Municipal agencies dealing with the sudden influx of mainly Mexican refugee(s)...

"We don't have the means, ability or capacity to deal with this...potential crisis..."

And they're talking about 200 or so people so far? Well. I'm glad some politician somewhere has finally figured out what a drain his community is facing. Too bad it's a Canadian and not one of ours...say, the Mayors of Los Angeles or Phoenix, or any one of a hundred different US cities, for instance.

5 posted on 11/04/2007 3:03:54 PM PST by HiJinx (Marine to Gen Pace: "Sir, thanks for your service. We’ll take it from here.")
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To: HiJinx
and we’ve said it to the Ex-Cong. Kolbe and Sen RINO McCain how many times? But we’re just dumb local yokels to them.
6 posted on 11/04/2007 3:07:51 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: sinanju

“I don’t believe that Windsor’s residents and taxpayers should have to foot the bill for U.S. immigration policy,”

Welcome to our world...


7 posted on 11/04/2007 3:09:04 PM PST by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: sinanju

I wonder if the planned new bridge between Detroit and Windsor will have a walking lane.


8 posted on 11/04/2007 3:20:54 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: fanfan

Ping!


9 posted on 11/04/2007 3:22:41 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
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To: sinanju
generous refugee admissions criteria.

The problem might be blamed on American policy since it was lax to the point of non-existent for several years, but clearly it is going to get a lot worse since the crackdown has only begun. They refugees don't meet the minimum specs for refugee status anywhere except Windsor so they ought to be turned away.

10 posted on 11/04/2007 3:25:24 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: sinanju

We should have a train from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Maybe our neighbors would like to help their less fortunate southern cousins. And to help the Mexicans, too.


11 posted on 11/04/2007 3:26:20 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: tcrlaf
“I don’t believe that Windsor’s residents and taxpayers should have to foot the bill for U.S. immigration policy,”

If you let them in, keep them, and help them, then you are part of the problem.

12 posted on 11/04/2007 3:28:21 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: SwinneySwitch; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; conniew; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; ...
Thanks SwinneySwitch.


13 posted on 11/04/2007 3:30:33 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: HiJinx

If our state and local governments continue to wake up Canada should soon be overwhelmed with these “refugees” and when Canadians start to figure out that their economy is being redirected to Refugee Relief and the lefties start calling for all government programs and publications to be in Spanish, then maybe the Canadians will start to wake up , too, and the problem moves on to the semi-autonomous Eskimo and Cree jurisdictions.


14 posted on 11/04/2007 3:31:34 PM PST by arthurus
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To: ExSES

Canada will eventually have to ship them to England where they will improve the immigrant mix there.


15 posted on 11/04/2007 3:33:47 PM PST by arthurus
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To: arthurus

Just wait until the Francophiles figure out that Spanish is going to be the second largest language in Canada.


16 posted on 11/04/2007 3:50:07 PM PST by Paladin2 (We don't fix the problem, we fix the blame!)
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To: Right Wing Assault
We should have a train from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.

In a way, we do. Illegals can pick up Amtrak's Texas Eagle in El Paso and take it to Chicago, the hub of the national network. From there, they can take the Blue Water to Port Huron.

However, they will still need to walk or take a bus across the bridge at the border to Sarnia. From there, they can take a VIA train to anywhere in eastern Canada.

17 posted on 11/04/2007 3:55:38 PM PST by Publius (A = A)
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To: sinanju

Complaining about illegals? They should be happy about how much the price of vegetables and lawn care has gone down!


18 posted on 11/04/2007 4:22:20 PM PST by whipitgood (Let's burn some MEXICAN flags!)
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To: HiJinx
"And they're talking about 200 or so people so far? Well. I'm glad some politician somewhere has finally figured out what a drain his community is facing. Too bad it's a Canadian and not one of ours...say, the Mayors of Los Angeles or Phoenix, or any one of a hundred different US cities, for instance."

I'd say that chances are pretty good that the U.S. will be sending aid to Canada to help them deal with this problem, while all the while telling us that illegals don't cost us a thing because they contribute so much to our economy and culture.

Geez, I have come to hate compassionate conservatism.

19 posted on 11/04/2007 4:27:46 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: whipitgood

I am so jealous. Canada is going to have cheap lettuce. S/


20 posted on 11/04/2007 4:51:24 PM PST by texastoo ((((((USA)))))((((((, USA))))))((((((. USA))))))))
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