ExtremePrivilege t1_jdu83fg wrote
Roxham road, baby.
An absolutely astonishing number of migrants cross there every year. Like tens of thousands if not over 100,000. If they cross at the nearby Champlain Border Crossing they get rejected because they’re not entering Canada legally, however if they WALK across the border at an illegal crossing, like Roxham Road, they can claim “Asylum” when they get arrested. As far as I know over 65% of Asylum seekers that cross at Roxham ultimately are granted Asylum, so it’s not like they’re lying. They’re mostly fleeing oppression in South America or Africa. But it’s a huge burden on the Canadian legal system and social services.
Naturally, the US government has been aware of Roxham Road for a decade, but why arrest these people on our side? Then they can claim Asylum here and they become our problem. So the US has turned a blind eye to these migrants, letting Canada get stuck with them.
Seems Trudeau has had enough.
TacTurtle t1_jduq8ra wrote
This fundamentally is the same argument and issue the US has with Central American asylum seekers refusing to request asylum in geographically closer countries to their original country of origin like Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, etc.
crankery t1_jdufw0b wrote
Plugging the loop hole kills a massive talking point for the opposition parties. The conservatives harped on and on about this for ages. Now that something has been done about it it’s been crickets from them.
graydf t1_jduht9o wrote
Why did it take so long to stop?
Devinmac t1_jdujuxg wrote
It's more than 1 country involved
FamousAsstronomer t1_jdvev2j wrote
It was signed almost a year ago. So again.. why did it take so long to stop?
Also, the original agreement was signed in 2004 and there were zero significant problems until Trudeau took office. Why?
Devinmac t1_jdvk12l wrote
The world changed, there is more and more migration, and the Americans weren't busing them to the border before. It's clearly the conservatives fault..... Stop dragging your knuckles.
FamousAsstronomer t1_jdw78sx wrote
You completed ignored the first question.
Your glib response to the second question deflects away from the first question but it doesn't address the change from a few hundred in 2015 to 21,000 in 2017. Try to look at the big picture and think a little harder. I await your "orange man bad" reply. Yawn.
Successful-Okra-1317 t1_jduumlp wrote
The wages where still about to rise but now they dont have to anymore because of the new cheap labor and they can even rise the rent.
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