time to strengthen the Northern border, too
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I could not agree more. Canada lets in all kinds of riff raff, and if someone knows what they are doing, they could camp and hike their way across the border.
My husband grew up in a small village in the Gaspe. The border to Maine is only 17 miles away.
rather a smug comment...posting opinion as fact in this sensitive era helps no one...this exerpt..
Two stage screening process for refugees coming to Canada
In a recent opinion piece in The Tyee, immigration lawyer Laura Best writes that Canada can safely meet its commitment to resettle 25,000 refugees by the end of the year. How?
Best explains the UNHCR (United Nations HIgh Commissioner for Refugees) has been on the ground in Syria’s neighbouring countries for years now.
“And they have a robust screening process before they’re even placed to be eligible for re-settlement. So that involves being screened for criminality, security threats and being screened for credibility.”
Only 1-2% of the refugees that are registered with the UNHCR agency are ever placed into the resettlement pool, and they are heavily vetted before that’s done.
Canada taps into that vetted pool.
Then Canada re-does its own security screening, including medical, criminal and background checks by the Canadian Visa office abroad, which involved coordination with CSIS, the RCMP, looking at international databases like Interpol, and often re-interviewing applicants.
“Canada is pre-selecting, pre-screening overseas before they ever make it to Canada.”