Juno News - October 19, 2018


More illegal border crossers into Canada this year than last year

Topics
illegal border crossers crisis
Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Bill Blair
Elizabeth Warren's obscure aboriginal heritage is identity politics in action True North headed to UK to cover Tommy Robinson trial

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Length

3 minutes

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158.39

Word count

591

Sentence count

21

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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The federal government must think we are all absolute morons. When it comes to the crisis of illegal border crossers seeking asylum in Canada, absolutely nothing is getting done about it. This is after Justin Trudeau appointed a Minister of Border Security in Bill Blair, despite the fact that he didn t really have a job for the longest time, and even now it s not quite clear what he s doing.

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00:00:00.000 The federal government must think we are all absolute morons. 1.00
00:00:05.140 When it comes to the crisis of illegal border crossers seeking asylum in Canada, 1.00
00:00:10.020 absolutely nothing is getting done about it.
00:00:13.140 Now this is after Justin Trudeau saying,
00:00:15.360 oh it's a serious issue that he takes very seriously,
00:00:18.300 eminently serious in fact, because he's such a serious politician.
00:00:22.340 This is after appointing a Minister of Border Security in Bill Blair,
00:00:26.680 despite the fact that he didn't really have a job for the longest time,
00:00:30.520 and even now it's not quite clear what he's doing.
00:00:33.160 And despite the fact that the government has said,
00:00:35.060 oh it's pouring all these resources and doing all of this work
00:00:38.640 to make sure that Canadians are looked after
00:00:41.280 and that the borders remain full of integrity and secure.
00:00:46.080 All of that notwithstanding, we have new numbers that show
00:00:49.460 we have actually allowed more illegal border crossers into the country this year
00:00:53.880 than we did by the same point last year.
00:00:57.560 We're looking at just shy of $1,800 a month,
00:01:00.360 which is actually an increase over last year, 2017,
00:01:03.560 which was one of the worst on record.
00:01:05.900 It was the year in which this crisis actually became a crisis in many respects.
00:01:11.460 So all of the other issues that we have connected to this,
00:01:14.880 such as long wait times,
00:01:16.660 such as an inability or an unwillingness for the government to actually deport people,
00:01:20.800 they've only deported a tiny fraction of those who have been declared inadmissible.
00:01:26.040 There's the wait time to actually find out
00:01:28.860 if your claim is going to be approved or denied,
00:01:31.800 and in that time, the cost to the taxpayers.
00:01:34.540 There are the security concerns of people that are being improperly vetted
00:01:38.240 just being walked across the border,
00:01:40.420 waltzed into Canada illegally,
00:01:42.300 and then actually entertained as serious refugees later on.
00:01:45.700 And all of this that the government has turned a blind eye to.
00:01:50.020 And the reason Canadians should be so outraged about this
00:01:53.520 is that numbers do not lie, in many cases.
00:01:57.140 There are exceptions to that.
00:01:58.360 But for the most part, when you have an actual crisis
00:02:01.540 that one year the government says,
00:02:03.640 yes, we're looking after,
00:02:04.840 and then the next year the numbers are increasing,
00:02:08.200 the people that are fueling that crisis
00:02:10.800 are actually more voluminous than they were the year prior,
00:02:14.500 it's time for Canadians to stand up and say,
00:02:16.480 hang on, you are not doing a darn thing.
00:02:18.960 So I go back to what I said at the beginning, 1.00
00:02:21.040 the federal government must think we are absolute morons here. 0.99
00:02:24.400 If we have a Minister of Border Security, 0.99
00:02:27.060 millions of dollars being invested into this,
00:02:29.280 and we're not actually stopping the entry into Canada
00:02:32.760 of these illegal border crossers, 0.80
00:02:34.720 then what is our master strategy to deal with this?
00:02:38.140 What are we doing if we're not actually dealing with the root cause of this,
00:02:41.200 which is the influx of people into Canada in the first place?
00:02:43.900 All of the other issues that are connected to that,
00:02:46.780 such as housing, such as money available,
00:02:49.700 such as vetting, such as hearing the asylum claims,
00:02:54.240 such as dealing with the wait time to hear the asylum claims,
00:02:57.300 all of that is secondary to the number of people
00:03:00.360 that are coming across the border.
00:03:01.920 That's our first and best defense to deal with that.
00:03:04.700 And the federal government has decided
00:03:06.420 it's just not into finding a solution.
00:03:08.960 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:03:13.900 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.