Posted on 11/01/2024 6:40:42 AM PDT by jerod
Given 3 days to leave for alleged 'violations' in midst of nationwide housing crisis
One look inside the car and it's obvious someone has been living in it.
There are shirts on hangers dangling from the passenger-side window hook. In the back seat, there's a blanket, a pillow and an eye mask.
The vehicle has been home to an asylum seeker since his recent eviction from a hotel leased by the federal government. CBC News is not naming the man because he's afraid he will be sent back to his country, where he fears for his safety, as he's still waiting for a hearing on his refugee claim in Canada.
"It's very difficult. It's very cold at night," he said. "Sometimes, I don't have a place to go to the washroom, to change my clothes."
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has rules for asylum seekers in its hotels across the country that, if broken, could result in occupants receiving short-term eviction notices that leave them with little choice but to sleep on the streets or, in this case, in their car in the midst of a nationwide housing crisis.
The reception of asylum seekers is an issue for many countries, including Canada, as they grapple with ongoing irregular migration patterns and polarized public opinion.
Ottawa recently announced a roughly 20 per cent reduction in the number of permanent residents in 2025 — from a previous target of 500,000 to 395,000 — amid recent polls showing Canadians have an increasingly negative attitude toward immigration.
Given 3 days to leave for alleged violations
Two and a half years ago, the man arrived in Canada from North Africa through Roxham Road — a rural road that became an unofficial border crossing between Quebec and the United States for thousands of asylum seekers — and was living in one of the hotels in the Greater Toronto Area. But following a dispute with his roommate, he was recently given an eviction notice stating he had three days to leave.
"I [cannot] imagine this," he said. "We are in Canada," he said.
CBC News has viewed the document, which cited the reasons for the eviction as "failure to meet with IRCC representative" and "aggressive" behaviour...
My second thought... He has a freaking car??? There are hundreds of thousands, and maybe even millions of Canadian's out there who can't afford to buy an f'n car, let alone live in one. WTF???
Where did he steal the car?
Who’s car?
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Nice car bro
He’s driving a better car than I had to live in after being burned out of my community.
Where did he get the $$$????
It’s much warmer in Africa.
L
Maybe he pays for it as an Uber driver.
How did that aho get that car across the muddy, Rio Grande?
Ah, so that’s where my $13,000 taxes disappeared to while I limit our grocery budget to half what the lowest EBT plan hands out. Nice car but I’m supposed to be ordering car parts instead of reading FR and hope the DIY works and thankful hubs found a work around on another car problem. Wish our property tax, home repairs, utilities, internet, etc. were free and I’d like a magic money card, too. Kamala promised equity and equality.
So, what did the guy to get kicked out of the 5 star hotel with maid service?
If this communist media outlet thought they would evoke sympathy for him with this crap they completely misread the vast majority of Americans, all they have accomplished is evoking anger and rage.
I know an American who sleeps in his car and still barely makes ends meet.
Asylum seeker him back to his home country he’s TROUBLE
Hey, why don’t the CBC News crew take him home with them ?
I thought that same thing about the car.
I’m a citizen with a source of income and I don’t have my own car.
He was very aggressive = muslim . Send him home , All that money , I suppose Trudeau fills their bank accounts every month with taxpayer cash
BOTH ITEMS STRUCK ME, ALSO.
HE HAS A DAMNED NICE CAR TO LIVE IN
I HAVE NOT HAD FREE LIVING SINCE I GRADUATED H S IN 1957 & got a job. HAD to Pay $50 a month to live at home.
CANADIAN
He isn’t an asylum seeker.
He is a welfare seeking parasite.
He is a criminal. Supposedly seeking asylum he violated US and Canadian law by not stopping in the first country after he left his original and ask for asylum. If you don’t follow the law(s) you are a criminal.
Starting that way, why would any one be dumb enough to think he’d clean up after that? Throw him back to his original country — and, I don’t care what happens to him.
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