The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 09

The International News Weekly REGIONAL
August 25, 2017 | Toronto 04
No shortcuts for asylum seekers
coming to Canada, says Trudeau
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA: Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau has
sought to combat criticism
that thousands of people
arriving at the Canada-
U.S. border to seek asylum
are throwing the immigration
system into chaos.
On the contrary, he
said everything is working
as it should.
"I can understand the
concerns Canadians share
about whether this is a
short cut, whether this is
somehow uncontrolled immigration,"
he said following
a meeting in Montreal
with federal and provincial
officials overseeing
response efforts.
"What I'm very pleased
to be able to say . . . is that
the rules on Canada's immigration
system continue
to be enforced."
Nearly 10,000 people
have been apprehended
at the border since the
start of the year as they've
sought to enter Canada
in order to claim refugee
status — almost equivalent
to the total number of
claims filed for all of 2013.
Of those who have arrived
this year, nearly 7,000
have arrived just since
July, the vast majority
at an unofficial crossing
point between Quebec and
New York.
Temporary camps to
house them have been set
up at border, and hundreds
of others have been
bussed to Cornwall, Ont.,
to be housed there while
the preliminary process
of applying for asylum begins.
The government has
also redeployed dozens of
police, border guards and
immigration officers to
manage the problem and
is also now focusing on
how to best support the
new arrivals while they
await a hearing on their
refuge claim.
Trudeau said one option
being explored is
accelerating the process
to give them temporary
work permits so they'll be
less dependent on the temporary
social supports in
place.
However, Conservative
immigration critic
Michelle Rempel blasted
Trudeau's handling of
what she called a crisis.
Camps on the border
and asking an already
overwhelmed immigration
and settlement system
to do more with no additional
resources is not a
solution, she told a news
conference Wednesday.
She said the opposition
has been raising the
issue for months, since
the arrivals at the border
numbered only in the dozens,
but the government's
response continues to fall
short. "A photo op after a
meeting will not cut it,"
she said.
"The prime minister of
Canada, in order to help
the world's most vulnerable
and to salvage the
Canadian asylum claim
system needs to come up
with a credible plan and
he needs to explain it to
Canadians."
Many of those who've
arrived in Canada have
been propelled by changing
immigration policy
in the United States that
began with the inauguration
of President Donald
Trump and his first attempt
in January to block
immigration to the U.S.
from certain predominantly
Muslim countries
and halt the refugee program.
In response to that
move, Trudeau tweeted:
"To those fleeing persecution,
terror & war, Canadians
will welcome you,
regardless of your faith.
Diversity is our strength
#WelcomeToCanada."
The message drew attention
around the world
and it set up expectations
among asylum seekers,
both the Conservatives
and the NDP say.
The NDP also say that
Trudeau's current messaging
is just as misleading.
He repeated Wednesday
that those crossing irregularly
into Canada will see
no special consideration
given to their file. But to
say there's no advantage
to doing so is unfair, NDP
immigration critic Jenny
Kwan said.
If they go the legal way,
she said, they'll be turned
away because of the agreement
between Canada and
the U.S. that precludes
people from making asylum
claims at official land
border crossings. Under
international law, once
they've crossed the border,
Canada must process
their claims, she noted.
If Trudeau is serious
about stopping the asylum
flow, he should suspend
the deal, she said.
Trudeau said Wednesday
the agreement will
remain in place. He said
when he talks about there
being no advantage, he
was speaking of the longer
term — claims are assessed
on the merits, not
based on how someone enters
the country.
The Liberals are also
continuing their outreach
in the U.S. to try and dispel
myths circulating there
about the Canadian immigration
system, Trudeau
said, touting Liberal MP
Emmanuel Dubourg's trip
to Miami to meet members
of the Haitian diaspora
there. The vast majority
of arrivals in recent weeks
have been from Haiti, as
the U.S. is currently considering
lifting a pause
on deportations to that
country. Canada resumed
deportations to Haiti this
year after its own lengthy
pause following a devastating
2010 earthquake in
that country.
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