cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/15839911

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that his government is addressing a complaint from Canada over the high number of asylum requests from Mexicans. According to data from the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Commission, between January and September 2023, Mexicans made the most asylum requests, with 17,500, well above Haitians, who made the second-highest number of requests with just over 8,500.

  • romp_2_door@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    9 months ago

    The asylum system is very easy to abuse. Coyotes and human traffickers take advantage of it.

    The only solution is to get rid of this system and re-think it from the ground up.

    I’m from Mexico. The situation is shitty but not that shitty. It wouldn’t be honest nor fair to say that Mexicans have it worse than Haitians.

    Mexico is a very big country and if you’re facing threats from organized crime, you can easily just move somewhere else within the country.

    So these Mexicans asylum seekers are taking more advantage of the system to gain easy residency in Canada. It’s not an actual dire need