Posted on 08/25/2017 7:35:00 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Justin Trudeau has sought to temper the notion that Canada is a guaranteed safe haven for those fleeing the threat of deportation in the United States, as his government faces criticism that its refugee-friendly messaging has given “false hope” to the thousands of asylum seekers streaming into Canada from the US.
Since the start of the year, more than 11,300 people have crossed into Canada by foot from the US. The pace has picked up in recent weeks, with as many as 250 people a day – many of them driven by fears of Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants – entering the country at remote, unguarded locations. Doing so allows them to skirt a longstanding pact that bars most refugee claimants in the US from applying for asylum in Canada
As Canadians officials scramble to process and house the new arrivals – turning Montreal’s Olympic stadium into a temporary welcome centre, deploying the military to set up a 500-person camp at the border and setting up a temporary tent city in a small Ontario city – Trudeau has set out to tone down the welcoming image his government has cultivated since taking power.
“For someone to successfully seek asylum it’s not about economic migration,” Trudeau told reporters...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
For nth times since 2016 election, I feel glad that i voted Trump
Is Schadenfreude a Canadian word?
To late, he’s already opened the floodgates.
More winning, AFAIC.
How bloody difficult is it to understand that the 3rd world will literally swamp the west if we allow it? There are many things to learn from the natural world if we pay attention. The ravages of a swarm of locusts for example.
“For someone to successfully seek asylum it’s not about economic migration”
Sounds like Trudeau is a racist, according to the leftie definition :P
A little different now, isn’t it?
At least backtracking on his invitation in response to public outrage so quickly puts him ahead of Angela Merkel.
I think we need to hold a National Give a Refugee a Ride to the Canadian Border Week.
Canadian Pajama-Boy-in-Chief can’t seem to calculate future consequences beyond the tip of his nose.
Devolution not evolution - Canada that what your doing now. How about a song.
Oh Canada my soon to be home but not native land True immigrant love with all the social services at the Queens command.
We will drain your coffers and rape you daughters
But you're so PC you can't do a thing
Oh Canada why won't you just let us all come in
What a maroon.
It’s easy to be anti-racist when your country is 99% white.
Reality sure does bite.
We need to be funneling illegals into Canada all along it’s border to help him decide to build a wall.
1. Canada has earned that.
2. Good fences make good neighbors.
““For someone to successfully seek asylum it’s not about economic migration,” Trudeau told reporters...”
Well no $hit Sherlock! The problem the “refugees” have is that they are for the most part Haitians, who were granted TEMPORARY REFUGE here because of the Haitian Earthquake. Now they have found that it’s not as nice in Haiti, they want to become PERMANENT RESIDENTS, but Trump will not extend that to them so they’re heading up to Canukaville. Trudeau has stepped on his d*ck!
Yep, run them on trains and buses up to the border, with instructions on how to game the Canadian system, just like Mexico does to us with their criminals and South American illegals. NAFTA in action :)
Trudeau was just virtue signaling.
Silly refugees, don’t take him seriously.
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