Posted on 03/21/2017 7:21:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An important, if unsung, benefit of Trump’s immigration policy: It just might restore the conservatives to power up north.
Granted, Canadian conservatives are nothing like American conservatives. Their conservative party is typically led by people who favor big government and universal health care, whereas our conservative party is led by, er…
Anyway. Canadians are getting tired of Justin Trudeau’s open-door policy for refugees from the United States:
Canadians appeared to be just as concerned about illegal immigration as American, according to the poll, which was conducted between March 8-9. Some 48 percent supported “increasing the deportation of people living in Canada illegally.”…
When asked specifically about the recent border crossings, the same number – 48 percent – said Canada should “send these migrants back to the U.S.” Another 36 percent said Canada should “accept these migrants”…
Of those polled, 46 percent disagreed with how Trudeau was handling the situation, 37 percent agreed, while 17 percent did not know. In January, a separate Ipsos poll found 59 percent of Canadians approved of Trudeau, while 41 percent disapproved.
Asked whether the influx of immigrants will make no difference to Canada’s security or will make the country less safe, Canadians split narrowly at 46/41.
There was a glut of news stories after Trump’s inauguration about people in the U.S. heading for the border through bitter, sometimes dangerous winter conditions to try to make it to Canada. The media loves an “evil Trump” story, after all, and reports of refugees risking frostbite or death to flee Trump’s America fit the bill nicely. (Maclean’s described the refugees’ route north as an “underground railroad.”) Border-crossers interviewed by Reuters in Canada insist that they were in the U.S. legally but feared that their asylum applications here would be quashed by the Trump administration, so they made a run for it. What’s making the trip extra risky for them is a 2004 agreement between the two countries that prevents people from seeking asylum if they enter Canada from the U.S. through legal points of entry like border checkpoints, airports, and train stations. Asylum-seekers from abroad are required to apply in whichever country they enter first, to prevent “asylum shopping.” However, if they enter Canada illegally from the U.S., like, say, through some Minnesota farmer’s fields abutting the Canadian border, then they can surrender to Canadian authorities and seek refugee status. Result: A perverse incentive that encourages people heading north to choose a more dangerous route.
Whether that 2004 agreement might be revisited to allow asylum-seekers to enter through legal means is an interesting question. The White House, I take it, is all for it; if immigrants want to decamp en masse for Justin Trudeau’s dewy-eyed embrace, have at it. As of last month, Trudeau was still insisting that the country would accept these border-crossers, no doubt under pressure from the left to amend the 2004 treaty to let immigrants from a Trump-led America enter Canada legally. But today’s Reuters poll might throw a wrench into that, especially with the weather warming up and the illegal routes north no longer as foreboding as they were in winter. In fact, Canada is slated to accept just 7,500 refugees this year, less than half the number they accepted last year. Even a liberal government in a liberal country isn’t immune to immigration politics. Trudeau can read the news dispatches from Europe as well as you or I can.
Here’s Trudeau telling Tom Brokaw a few days ago that “diversity is a great source of strength” — before adding that the asylum process takes a long time for good reason, “because Canadians understand how important it is to bring in people who can be integrated and succeed.”
Tune yer violins...
Letting Mexicans over run your southern border and threaten to collapse your social welfare system and national sovereignty?
or
Letting American liberals overrun your southern border and threaten your social welfare system and national sovereignty?
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Well! Never saw this coming...
Cough, sputter, gag...
Weren’t they trashing us not to long ago for having the same reaction to illegal aliens?
No, check
No, check
Don’t have to tell me twice...
I feel their pain. Actually, the Canadian government works for the same anti Christian globalists that run America. Until 80% feel very strongly about it, nothing will change.
Hang on...something doesn't compute here.It's a small detail to be sure but...if a foreigner (Mexican...American...Nigerian,etc) is found to be in Canada illegally of course it's reasonable for the government to expel (or even criminally prosecute) said person.But when expelling that person shouldn't he/she be sent to his/her country of citizenship rather than to some random country?
Just askin'...
HA HA! you elected fairy-faced Trudeau! Live with his decisions!
Yeah, but the US is obligated to take in the world's economic refugees, because of colonialism and white men are like so evil, and stuff. :)
Why yes, I do believe we were being lectured for not being compassionate the way the Canadians are.
On the other hand, if their polls are as reliable as ours, it probably IS 80%.
We have too many Mexican thieves, rapists, & murderers in Texas. We will help thousands of them go to Trudeau Country, where the welcome mat is always out.
At legal border crossings either country can turn back or accept people trying to enter either country. Canada and the US have a treaty that says that persons trying to cross the border at legal crossing points must be accepted by the sending country if they are sent back. Additionally, "refugees" who have landed in one country are not allowed into the other country as refugees.
People crossing the Canadian border illegally into Canada CAN claim to be refugees. They will get a hearing and, in most cases, will be sent back or to their country of origin.
We ain’t taking them back!
Don’t try to deport them here, you hoser morons.
Tredeau gave them a very warm invitation. You canuks need to take it up with Tredau at the ballot box, eh.
I'm not sure exactly who we're talking about here.I'm assuming that the people that 48% of Canadians want expelled are Mexicans who,fearing deportation from the US,are taking your young,charismatic PM at his word that "our doors are open".I'm also assuming that the foreigners we're talking about entered Canada in ways that violate your laws (that is,sneaking over the border).
It's pretty common knowledge that our common border is a pretty porous one.No troops....not many police (I,personally,have been to a spot in Vermont where I could easily sneak into Canadian territory without the permission of one of your border officials )...and lots (and lots!) of wide open country.
OTOH,if we're talking about moslems that might be a different matter.
Maybe they’d like to make a donation for the construction of Trumps wall. And add on about 30% for the weak dollar.
I think we need to control and secure that Northern border as well.
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