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Quebec sees surge in border crossings, 600 entered last weekend
.ctvnews ^ | Apr 4, 2018 | CTV News Staff

Posted on 04/05/2018 9:12:13 PM PDT by 11th_VA

More than 600 people illegally crossed into Canada through Quebec last weekend, a significant spike in the ongoing flow of migrants walking across the U.S.-Canada border.

About 150 people crossed each day. That’s triple the usual numbers of 50 to 60 migrants per day. Police were waiting on Canadian soil to arrest those crossing the border.

But unlike last year, when thousands of Haitian migrants were housed in a Montreal stadium, the new group is predominantly from Nigeria.

The crossings weren’t limited to the weekend. On Thursday, more than 114 migrants arrived, according to the Customs and Immigration Union. A Haitian woman named Rosemary was among those who made the journey from New York. Like many others who’ve crossed, she said her decision was rooted in fears of the U.S. immigration policy.

“I come here because Trump wants to deport everybody to go back home,” she told CTV News.

Temporary protected status for Haitians, granted following the devastating earthquake in 2010, is set to expire in 2019. The Trump administration has decided that living conditions in Haiti have improved enough to warrant ending the protection.

(Excerpt) Read more at ctvnews.ca ...


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1 posted on 04/05/2018 9:12:13 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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This is especially good news because Quebec attracts the parlez-vous Haitians like flies to sh*t.
 
2 posted on 04/05/2018 9:19:45 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: 11th_VA
I hope all of the immigrants leaving the USA and entering Canada end up on the lawn of the Canadian Capital demanding full Canadian Citizenship and free stuff paid for by the Canadian Taxpayers who call us names like racists and xenophobes.
3 posted on 04/05/2018 9:22:34 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: 11th_VA

Maybe we should do what Mexico did. Let the hoard train come on in and walk them all the way to Canada.


4 posted on 04/05/2018 9:22:45 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: 11th_VA

“the new group is predominantly from Nigeria”

Hmmm...Didn’t a bunch of Saudis leave just prior to 9-11? Isn’t Boko Haram active in Nigeria?


5 posted on 04/05/2018 9:26:59 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: 11th_VA
I smile sadly when I view the Canadian television people, eagerly milking this "human interest" story. There they are just across from Plattsburg, Up State New York at the Roxham Road in Quebec. The inevitable woman with a pack of sandwiches handing them out to the "refugees". The carefully crafted statements of the new entrants- re their plight if refused.

The huge stadium in Montreal built for the Olympics. Now a drag on the economic life of Montreal. Housing some of the applicants, numbering 11,200 this year. The dread charge of "racism" numbing the minds of Quebec residents. They dare not risk it.

At one time during the FLQ crisis in the 1960's violence erupted. The English speaking residents were tabbed "Les maudits Anglos". The accursed English. They said their culture was threatened, by ordinary Canadians of English stock.

I do not gloat over the situation. Nobody, especially our neighbours in the United States deserve this nightmare. Nightmare it is, if one deals with the one word- logistics. How does anyone feed, clothe, house and give medical attention to these invaders? Without cost and depriving their own people.?

6 posted on 04/05/2018 9:30:20 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: 11th_VA

Canada, sorry, but you sort of asked for this...


7 posted on 04/05/2018 9:36:32 PM PDT by cherry
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Hi cherry

I have tried 3 times to respond to you LOL I keep hitting a button with my palm on this tablet and it appears to erase everything. I grew up in Chicago I live in Quebec and you’re exactly right. Quebec is very refugee and immigrant-friendly. But hey! Though I have access to the chief daycare! Just don’t look at your tax bill people. Basically many seniors are subsidizing young people with big families in daycare it’s really not right. Sorry for the lack of punctuation. I’m just tired of trying to type it out. :-)


8 posted on 04/05/2018 10:00:10 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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What I don’t get is that if you just went up and suffered through one single winter, you’d pack up in the spring and head south. Maybe out on the western region of Canada, it wouldn’t be as bad, but to go and spend one single winter in Montreal?


9 posted on 04/05/2018 10:01:38 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 11th_VA

Canadistan can keep them!


10 posted on 04/05/2018 10:01:54 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: cherry; All

As much as chief daycare sounds intriguing, I meant to say cheap. LOL!

My dog is lying next to me and she’s dreaming...:)

Good night everyone. I think I will join her.


11 posted on 04/05/2018 10:06:41 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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More than 600 people illegally crossed into Canada...

Sheesh, even the Canadian press call them illegal...and not undocumented like the American press does.

12 posted on 04/05/2018 10:06:48 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Peter Libra

Quebec feels it’s a leader for francophone countries.


13 posted on 04/05/2018 10:34:04 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: JoeRed

I know that some Saudi’s left JUST after 9/11, thanks to George Bush allowing members of the “royal” family to flee. Boko Haram is Nigerian based, but there are a lot of Christians there too.


14 posted on 04/05/2018 10:35:08 PM PDT by Amberdawn (If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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To: vpintheak

Exactly. Canada is a joke.


15 posted on 04/05/2018 10:47:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 11th_VA

AWESOME!


16 posted on 04/05/2018 10:52:34 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: pepsionice

My wife had a friend who married an NHL player. He was in Calgary at the time. One summer he signed with a team in the southern part of the US. The friend was putting away the clothes after the move.

Their three year old saw the snow suit laying on the bed. He freaked out saying “I don’t want to go back there!”

I am going to guess that winter in Calgary might be a little cold.


17 posted on 04/06/2018 2:21:13 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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You can draw a circle around Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and the whole eastern section of the country, and expect awful harsh winters.

Then you go up to Vancouver (on the western end) and it’s a totally different landscape and climate. I just don’t see many of these migrants staying after one of these winters.

You see the same thing in Finland. Migrants show up...weather it through to spring, and start discussing moving south. I suspect Iceland has the same issue for migrants as well.


18 posted on 04/06/2018 2:26:37 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Peter Libra
I have friends I visit in Quebec and I have had to put up with their gloating over the problems that we have had in the US with race and crime.

But I have noticed many more darker-skinned Quebecois each time I have visited over the years and now with the latest influx of Haitians and Nigerians and the increases in crimes of violence in Montreal, their pomposity seems to have disappeared.

19 posted on 04/06/2018 3:56:12 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: wmileo
free stuff paid for by the Canadian Taxpayers who call us names like racists and xenophobes.

Unfortunately also paid for by those that call you friends, relatives and neighbors.

20 posted on 04/06/2018 4:45:01 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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