Trump asylum policy prompts migrants to enter US and then flee to Canada

An unlined, single-lane road in rural upstate New York that dead-ends just feet from the northern border is at the center of an unusual international immigration phenomenon — people escaping the United States for Canada.


Approximately 50,000 people have used Roxham Road to walk into Canada over the past three years. Roxham Road is one of dozens in Clinton County alone that run directly into the border, but this one is where more than 90% of all illegal crossings into Canada along the 4,000-mile-long border from Washington state to Maine have taken place since 2016.


U.S. border officials told the Washington Examiner during a recent visit here that Americans are not fleeing north. People from around the world — primarily families — are flying into the U.S. on tourist visas, taking buses and taxis from regional international airports to Roxham Road, and walking over the border, knowing they will be admitted into Canada if they enter illegally and claim to be refugees.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-migrants-to-enter-us-and-then-flee-to-canada

 

why not just fly right to canada?

but anyway, im sure they will be very happy there in canada, nice people . eh?

 

Most of them get deported back.

 

We'll need a northern wall and Canada will be paying for it.

 

You want to keep them in the USA? Good, here's $20

 

Walls are the answer to all our problems..

 

Sure! Go for it!

 

Where would we be without walls paid for by foreign nations?

 

I'm Canadian, I don't care! I would welcome a wall on our border though. That way you would have to keep those that are trying to get here.

 

Canadian Xenophobia? Say it isn't so.
Deported to where? I'm not sure how the process works.

FWIW I really enjoy visiting Canada, most peeps have been very enjoyable up there. Did BC, Alberta, and NS last year, enjoyed it immensely, although I did like Ireland a tad better except for the skinny roads which were terrifying at times.

 

Why would we need a wall if illegals are leaving? If it becomes a problem maybe Canada will put more officers there. But seems like a win for the USA.

 

Canada has a point system for immigration. Refugee status is also highly regulated. Most provinces have a quota in place for the maximum yearly amount of immigrant they'll take in. In Quebec this is set to 40k and conditional to the migrant learning french. About 80% of economic migrants are sent back.

 

We already do. The RCMP as a permanent post there. The migrants are registered then moved to the cities while their application is processed. If they don't meet the criterias they're sent back to their home country.

 

Then I fully support sending as many illegals your way, we don't seem to have the balls to do that. Were in Canada are you. Was in Vancouver 2 years ago and drove to Calgary then down to North Dakota. Your Rockies are absolutely beautiful, amazing drive nice people but your fuel price are horrible.

 

Safe Country Agreements.

Refugees are supposed to stay at the first safe country they enter. Which in the case, is the US. But, in CAnada, you aren't covered by that agreement if you show up outside a registered boarder crossing. So they fly to the US, tromp through wilderness and whatnot to get over the boarder and claim refugee status.

Unfortunately, a few of these folks don't understand the concept of 'cold' and tried to cross into Manitoba in the winter. More then a few fingers and toes lost in that bit of stupidity

 

I'm in Quebec.

 

That would be Mexico, not the U.S. As long as you are OK with central Americans skipping Mexico, then why do you have a problem with them skipping the U.S. for Canada?

 

Never been that way. But Vancouver is easily the nicest big city I have been in for a long time.

 

GOOD

 

Quebec city is great! You get to visit the only fortified city in North America in the old part with such a great view of the St-Lawrence Gulf. The Charlevoix region is also great also the Rimouski region. Plenty of great beutiful nature around.

 

Someday I will head up that way. Want to see the north east. Always thought Nova Scotia sounds interesting to visit.

 

Nova-Scotia and Prince Edward Island are really nice too. If you go to Quebec city in the summer you also get the opportunity to go to some great open air concert on the Plaines-d'Abraham. Many great bands play there every summer.

 

If they enter Mexico first, then yes, that's the first safe country. But the OP was about people entering the US first, which is why I said that.

ReRead the OP and the context of my post before making assumptions pls.

 

The only city I don't recommend is Montreal, unless you're a sport fan.
The city is under heavy renovation, the parking is lacking and the roads and traffic is abysmal. On the other hand, it's one of the most cosmopolitan city in Canada with great restaurant and many spectacles venues.

 

A 'match made in heaven' -- the penniless peasant mobs of Central America and Mexico surging into sweet-hearted, liberal Canada!

One wonders how long Canadians will put up with this sh*t when their cities start looking like many parts of ours do --