Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway
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.
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I love how asylum seeker became an euphemism for illegal immigrant, and leftists act like its a good thing.
Seeking asylum in Canada is legal.
But illegally immigrating is not. Two different acts.
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.
Except here, they explicitly closed the border and illegally immigrated anyway.
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.
A) Asylum is legal. B) 39,000 people in a year represents a population gain of....0.001%. Horrifying.
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.
These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.
Agreed, but don't talk about it on lemmy, nobody wants to listen.