Many now come by air, while others sneak across the border and hide until they can apply for asylum without fear of being sent back. The numbers show how hard it is to shut the door on desperate people.
  • lungdart
    9·
    10 months ago

    Canada has two land borders now. Get with the times!

  • zephyreks
    61·
    10 months ago

    Why are we taking asylum seekers who entered the US and didn’t like it when there are legitimate reasons to seek asylum from the US (i.e. for LGBTQ Americans) and the needs of those people aren’t being met?

  • frostbiker
    65·
    10 months ago

    An asylum seeker that jumps from one developed country to the next is no longer seeking safety, and thus should be subject to the same rules as any other immigrant.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    TORONTO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A deal Canada struck this year to stem the flow of asylum seekers entering from the U.S. was, at first glance, a quick success: Within days, the number of people caught at unofficial crossings along the border dwindled to a trickle.

    “The basic reality is that closing a border doesn’t do anything to solve the need for protection,” said Shauna Labman, an associate professor and acting director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Winnipeg.

    Still, last year alone, more than 39,000 asylum seekers entered Canada via unofficial crossings - mostly into Quebec via a dirt path off Roxham Road in New York, prompting the province to complain it could not handle the arrivals.

    Some of the higher numbers are being driven by more people filing refugee claims at airports or local immigration department offices - often days, weeks or months after arriving in the country, government data shows.

    At least part of the reason for the latest influx is that Canada is among a shrinking group of countries seen as offering safe harbor while pressures of war, climate change and human rights violations force a greater number to flee, some migrant experts say.

    With Canada’s land border largely closed off, the asylum system now favors people like Bakhit who can get a visa and plane ticket, refugee lawyer Maureen Silcoff said.

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  • Throwaway@lemm.ee
    1025·
    10 months ago

    I love how asylum seeker became an euphemism for illegal immigrant, and leftists act like its a good thing.

        • Funderpants
          181·
          10 months ago

          That’s why there are two different words, which are neither synonyms nor euphemisms, this story is about asylum, features stories about individuals seeking asylum and your attempt to confound the two didn’t work.

          • Throwaway@lemm.ee
            17·
            10 months ago

            Except here, they explicitly closed the border and illegally immigrated anyway.

            • Funderpants
              7·
              10 months ago

              Nope, that’s not it, they’ve explicitly changed their behaviour to stay inside the law. It’s what the article is about, how asylum seekers are adapting their behaviour to fit inside the new changes to the safe third country agreent.

    • grte
      114·
      10 months ago

      A) Asylum is legal. B) 39,000 people in a year represents a population gain of…0.001%. Horrifying.

      • zephyreks
        7·
        10 months ago

        Actually… It’s a gain of 0.1%. it’s also 9% of all new immigrants to Canada in a given year. It’s also 4x the limit of the recent H1B holders visa program for skilled immigrants who could not stay in the US.

    • lasagna@programming.devEnglish
      42·
      10 months ago

      These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.