When we recently checked in on Canada, the government had dispatched troops to an extremely popular yet illegal border crossing — so that they could assist in setting up a tent city to handle the huge number of people fleeing the United States.
It’s important that they cross illegally; otherwise, they’ll be sent back and be expected to apply for asylum in the United States. Theoretically, at least, refugees don’t get to try out different countries and pick the one in which they’d prefer to stay indefinitely.
But the numbers recently are staggering, and U.S. News reported Wednesday that more than 80 percent of the thousands of asylum-seekers entering Quebec at the Roxham Road crossing are Haitians who face deportation anyway.
A surge of Haitians are heading north to avoid U.S. deportation, only to discover it may come even sooner in Canada https://t.co/PzgRRX34N4
— Gaby Galvin (@mg_galvin) August 30, 2017
The Miami Herald reported this week that Canadian officials want to know who is telling Haitians where to cross and how, often through Facebook posts and WhatsApp messages.
Who is encouraging Haitians to cross the border? Canada wants to know https://t.co/3R4ynx3RO9 pic.twitter.com/wOyEbjt3vE
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) August 27, 2017
“It’s not true that Canada is wide open,” said Canada’s only Haiti-born parliamentarian, Emmanuel Dubourg, whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recent dispatched to Miami to look into it. “Crossing the border…is no free pass.”
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U.S. News reports:
The U.S. shielded more than 50,000 Haitians from deportation after the devastating 2010 earthquake that left 300,000 people dead. But senior Department of Homeland Security officials said in May that conditions in Haiti are improving and the program could be suspended in January 2018. The DHS memo encouraged Haitians to prepare to return home if their protected status is not extended.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, says not to blame him for pointing thousands of Haitians to Trudeau’s back doorstep.
Who is encouraging Haitians to cross the border? Canada wants to know. https://t.co/LtRiQSWERC Wasn't me!
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) August 29, 2017
Go to 24 Sussex, the residence of the Canadian Prime Minister. There you will find the answer.
— chuck curtis (@chuckcurtis) August 29, 2017
I'd encourage it: I love it when people are hoisted on their own self-righteous petards.
— J. Sanders (@jskdn) August 29, 2017
Trudeau hides behind the US, talks big at our expense, then gets just a taste of what we deal with and all his virtue-signaling vanishes.
— David (@David_____1) August 29, 2017
LOL… we are offering a free bus/train ticket and 3 meal tickets to any illegals who want to "irregularly" move to Canada. #justintrudeau
— Stay Strong and MAGA (@bananapolitici1) August 29, 2017
Here’s the reason for the northward migration of 2017:
Haitians coming to Canada from the U.S. say Trump, not Trudeau, was the reason. https://t.co/AjMzFdpVZv
— Maclean's Magazine (@macleans) August 27, 2017
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‘We can’t control it’: Canada dispatches troops to illegal border crossing … to assist at makeshift intake camp https://t.co/BoCMhnDBlZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 10, 2017
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