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Americans who claim they are being persecuted by Trump are fleeing to Canada in record numbers
The Daily Mail ^ | 28 March 2026 | ALYSSA GUZMAN

Posted on 03/28/2026 10:29:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The number of Americans claiming asylum in Canada has jumped dramatically, as voters who dislike Donald Trump and his policies flee north of the border.

In 2025, there were 1,850 asylum applications for Americans seeking to move to Canada - more than double the 700 in 2024, the year Trump won his second presidential election.

Immigration data, viewed by the Daily Mail, shows that US asylum claims are approaching figures not seen since Trump's last term, with a record 2,535 applying for asylum in 2017, at the height of the anti-Trump 'Resistance' movement.

Prior to Trump taking office in 2017, the number of Americans seeking asylum in Canada was only a few hundred each year, but surged into the four figures after the election of the MAGA president.

The first full year of Democrat President Joe Biden's term in office - 2022 - saw 1,140 Americans seeking asylum in Canada.

Numbers then fell sharply, to between 300 and 700 a year for the remainder of Biden's single term in office.

Ryan Rosenberg, a managing partner in Canadian firm Larlee Rosenberg, said he has seen a definite increase in immigration inquiries from Americans since Trump took the White House in 2016 and 2024.

'We definitely saw a massive spike in business,' Rosenberg told the Daily Mail. But this time, he said, the law firm saw inquiries from a 'much wider range of Americans.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: alyssaguzman; dailywail; fakenews; tds
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1 posted on 03/28/2026 10:29:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Go for it...Be a better country without you....


2 posted on 03/28/2026 10:31:28 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: MinorityRepublican

GOOD! (riddance)


3 posted on 03/28/2026 10:33:20 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well...





Bye.

4 posted on 03/28/2026 10:33:25 AM PDT by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Winning!...


5 posted on 03/28/2026 10:33:56 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s cold up there ,LOL


6 posted on 03/28/2026 10:33:58 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: JBW1949
...a better country without you....

...and if they want to escape deeper, Canada encourages and assists suicide.

7 posted on 03/28/2026 10:35:22 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: MinorityRepublican

🎉🎊👍. Send maple syrup eh!


8 posted on 03/28/2026 10:35:39 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So, now more gay and tranny problems for Canada. What’s the downside for us?


9 posted on 03/28/2026 10:35:49 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: metmom

More BS from the TDS kids at the mail. Yeah l’ll bet dozens have left.


10 posted on 03/28/2026 10:36:14 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

1,850 isn’t even a small town population.

They must really be pushing a narrative to make a story out of that.


11 posted on 03/28/2026 10:36:28 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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Americans who claim they are being persecuted by Trump are fleeing to Canada in record numbers...

...where Canada’s House of Commons passes ‘anti-Christian’ bill that would criminalize quoting Bible.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4372581/posts

Rots a ruck in Canada...

12 posted on 03/28/2026 10:36:50 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA "by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Americans who claim they are being persecuted by Trump are fleeing to Canada in record numbers.

Works for me!!

13 posted on 03/28/2026 10:37:02 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada is on its way to be the largest lunatic asylum in the world.


14 posted on 03/28/2026 10:38:09 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada deserves such trash.


15 posted on 03/28/2026 10:38:43 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: MinorityRepublican

And if they will STAY gone, even better...


16 posted on 03/28/2026 10:39:24 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nothing in there about them renouncing their citizenship.


17 posted on 03/28/2026 10:40:16 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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Little over 1,000 people in a country
of over 340 million, that is something
to worry about? Good riddance.
Most are probably illegal aliens anyway.


18 posted on 03/28/2026 10:40:23 AM PDT by rellic
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“””The number of Americans claiming asylum in Canada has jumped dramatically,””””


BUT, are all of them US CITIZENS?????????


19 posted on 03/28/2026 10:41:37 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MinorityRepublican

The voluntary Weeding Out of the Great Disgruntled continues unabated.


20 posted on 03/28/2026 10:41:49 AM PDT by lee martell
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