Late last year, Townhall covered how former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that his country made mistakes regarding immigration in recent years.
“Immigration. Let’s talk about it. In the last two years, our population’s grown fast…and increasingly, bad actors like fake colleges and big chain corporations have been exploiting our immigration system for their own interests,” Trudeau said in a statement on video at the time.
“We’re doing something major,” he continued. “We’re reducing the numbers of immigrants that will come to Canada for the next three years.”
For many years, the United States has dealt with an astronomical number of illegal immigrants pouring across our southern border. President Donald Trump has vowed to fix this. His administration has been carrying out mass deportations since he took office.
Now, thousands “migrants” scared of deportation by Trump are fleeing to Canada, according to a report from the New York Post:
At least 1,411 migrants attempted to cross the border in upstate New York alone in the first two weeks of April, according to data from the Canadian Border Services Agency.
That’s more than the entire month of March, when 1,356 people made the journey, which was already double the average of the previous months.
And this is just the number of people turning themselves into Canadian authorities to claim asylum — the actual number of border-crossers is likely higher, with many trying to illegally penetrate the largely unguarded border.
The majority of the Haitians fleeing the US are trying to go to Quebec, where most residents speak French.
Apparently, Mark Carney, who recently succeeded Trudeau, said “We have to be human – but realistic. Canada can’t accept everyone.”
“There are limits,” he asserted.
The Post noted that because of the Safe Third Country Agreement between the US and Canada, these migrants can’t legally claim asylum in Canada if they’ve arrived via the US, on the basis that both are safe countries and they should make a claim wherever they arrive first.
