Rempel and Clement call on Ottawa to stop illegal border crossings

Twenty two people were found illegally crossing the border into the Canadian province of Manitoba this weekend, according to the Canada Border Services Agency.

Rempel’s micromessages were published after the RCMP in Manitoba announced that she had intercepted 22 other asylum seekers near Emerson on Saturday night. 99 people have crossed the border since the beginning of the year to seek asylum, according to local authorities.

Refugee claimants who illegally enter the country are generally detained by police until criminal background checks are completed. Whether any of them were American or Mexican is not known. Both Somalia and Sudan are on the list. It should be noted that Canada’s procedures stand in stark contrast to the USA, where refugee claimants spend months in detention centres.

Most avoid official border crossings because of the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S. It requires that people apply for refugee status in the first safe country they land in.

On 27 January Trump signed an executive order to prevent refugees from seven majority-Muslim nations entering the United States, including the war-torn nations of Syria and Somalia, and has signed other orders to round up illegal immigrants.

The Minnesota State Demographic Center says the state is home to nearly one-third of the total U.S. Somali population.

“As the numbers get bigger there is growing concerns”, he said. The restriction that came into effect in 2009 was just lifted in December 2016.

“These people are not crossing in the winter in -30 degree weather for fun – they’re doing it because they don’t have a choice”, he said in a phone interview. “I think there’s going to be confrontations”, Janzen said. “There will be an increase in people claiming asylum status because they feel they can’t stay in America or are feeling persecuted in America”.

Canada is more welcoming to refugees than the United States historically has been.

Earlier this month, Falk wrote that “we need to be clear – the migrants that are crossing into Canada illegally in the dead of night are not refugees”.

National Public Radio reports that Canada’s more open immigration policy is partly a practical matter: Canada is the world’s second-largest nation, but has only 36 million people and a low birth rate, leaving it unable to replenish its workforce. Canadian police held onto the man’s arm when he crossed.

Trump’s order is in legal limbo as judges question whether it is constitutional. -Canada border as a U.S. Border Patrol agent checks his documentation.

A spokesman for Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the federal government was not considering withdrawing from the deal.

The contrast between the Trump administration and the Trudeau government’s “open-arm signals” has not been lost on those looking to flee strife in their homelands, said Abdulahi, who practised law in Ethiopia before moving to the US two decades ago. “Some are coming across anticipating worsening immigration enforcement and worsening political climate for them”, Suleman said. “[Refugees] coming into Canada legally, they are supportive”. Ihme said it appeared there was a “huge number of them”, at least more than 10 people. These issues existed before President Trump.