Posted on 01/29/2018 7:50:27 AM PST by BunnySlippers
Fearing Deportation From U.S., Migrants Walk To Canada
Many immigrants were encouraged to come to Canada after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted a tweet welcoming refugees in response to President Trump's first travel ban last January, says Marjorie Villefranche, head of Maison d'Haiti, a community center and advocacy organization in Montreal.
"I think they took that message as a welcome message," she tells Here & Now's Robin Young. "When you arrive in Canada you have to go through an immigration process anyway, so they knew that it wouldn't be that easy. But I think they are taking a chance because they think probably the mood in Canada is probably better than in the United States."
The flow of Haitian migrants into Canada was sparked last summer when the U.S. began considering an end to the temporary residency program for Haitians that has been in effect since the 2010 earthquake. Now that TPS has been terminated, Haitians have until mid-2019 to leave the U.S. Others are entering Canada after traveling through the U.S. from South America, Villefranche says.
Mona Hassennia, a director of the nonprofit organization International Social Service, told NPR in an interview last year that 80 percent of her clients have walked over the U.S.-Canada border.
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many people are also crossing the border because of a legal paradox known as the U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement. That deal states that if a person applies for refugee status by legally crossing into Canada, they will be deported because the U.S. is considered safe for refugees. But if a person enters illegally, the treaty doesn't apply and they can remain in Canada while their claim for refugee status is decided..
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many people are also crossing the border because of a legal paradox known as the U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement. That deal states that if a person applies for refugee status by legally crossing into Canada, they will be deported because the U.S. is considered safe for refugees. But if a person enters illegally, the treaty doesn't apply and they can remain in Canada while their claim for refugee status is decided..
I wonder how this will go over.
Well, Justine wanted them. Enjoy!
Will the Canadian Left start referring to them as Dreamers?
Last time I checked, Canada was a nation of immigrants, so what’s the problem?
Canada also has epic Welfare including free medical.
They are getting a trickle. We get the brunt!
Un Pays du Trou Merde
All sales final, no refunds!
Well, Canada better start building lots of housing with big time subsidies.
Virtue is expensive!
It’s not free healthcare. The producers and workers in the society pay for it so the mooches can exploit and over use it at the expensive of the folks that are paying for it.
It is the preferred global scheme of healthcare!
And then we’ll seal off the border so the whites can’t leave Canada, they’ll have to live with the mess they made.
Well...
...bye!
they will have to give them emergency bra-removal training and then food and water
ping
Remember, Canada is Bilingual, so you also have to say, "Bien.....Adieu !"
Canada: Shithole of the Future
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