Juno News - July 31, 2019


There's still a crisis at our border

Topics
illegal border crossers and asylum seekers illegal immigration problem in Canada
Guests
True North
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Candace Malcolm Donald Trump
LAWTON： Gerald Butts is back. No one should be surprised. Hate crimes on the decline. Liberals pretending otherwise.

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5 minutes

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151.59

Word count

905

Sentence count

49

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Hate speech

7

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In this episode, Candice Malmquist talks about the surge in illegal immigrants crossing the border into Canada, and why it's a problem that won't go away. She talks about what's going on, why it matters, and what we should do about it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Candace Malcolm here with True North. Now, Canadians could be forgiven for 1.00
00:00:15.300 believing that the crisis of illegal border crossers and asylum seekers has
00:00:20.680 simply gone away. I mean, after all, the media hardly cover the issue anymore and
00:00:25.980 when the few politicians who are brave enough to bring up the issue, try to
00:00:31.680 talk about it, we actually have media fact-checking them and complaining about
00:00:37.320 their language using the politically correct Trudeau-approved talking points.
00:00:42.480 What I don't want, I don't want our RCMP officers to welcome them. They are illegal
00:00:49.260 migrants and so we must be sure that if they want to come to our country, they 1.00
00:00:54.480 have to follow our immigration law and that's very important for us.
00:00:58.860 I think the correct term is irregular migrants, is it not? 1.00
00:01:02.940 The reality is that the number of people coming into Canada illegally and making 0.99
00:01:08.640 asylum claims has shown no signs of slowing down. Now, if we go back to 2017, there was 0.97
00:01:16.260 plenty of media coverage about this issue. It was all over the news from the CBC to
00:01:22.620 the Toronto Star. Everyone, even left-wing journalists in downtown Toronto and
00:01:27.620 Montreal, were covering the issue. Now, part of that was because they tried to
00:01:32.160 create a fake news narrative claiming that somehow Donald Trump was responsible for
00:01:37.620 the huge surge in illegal border crossings into Canada. That, of course, wasn't true.
00:01:43.200 The reason for the flood of migrants crossing the border illegally there was
00:01:48.840 because of Justin Trudeau, because of his virtue signaling on the world stage, inviting the
00:01:53.880 world via Twitter to come to Canada, and because his government made critical changes to our
00:02:00.280 refugee and asylum program, allowing virtually anyone to come to Canada and claim asylum.
00:02:06.760 He removed all kinds of restrictions that had been brought in by the previous Conservative government.
00:02:12.440 Now, it's the middle of the summer, it's slow news days, but I was looking up the data at Immigration
00:02:19.960 Canada and the CBSA, and I found that the numbers, it's surprising, the numbers have shown no signs of
00:02:27.080 slowing down. So, from January until June of 2019, the number of asylum claims that have been made in
00:02:33.800 Canada has been 26,860. That's actually on track to be higher than the number of total asylum claims
00:02:42.520 in 2017, and we're going to give 2018 a run for its money. So, last year, 2018, from January to December,
00:02:51.400 there were 55,035 asylum claims. Now, interestingly, last year, from January to June, the tally after half
00:03:00.280 the year, it was only 25,000. So, we're actually on track, potentially, to have more asylum claims
00:03:06.200 this year, 2019, than last year. Go back to 2017, the year that we did get plenty of media attention
00:03:12.520 on this topic, 2017, there were a total of 50,390 asylum claims made, and from January to June,
00:03:20.280 there had only been 18,445. So, those are the numbers. We're at 26,860 already after just six months
00:03:29.320 of tally there by the Canadian government. And yet, despite this ongoing surge, there just really
00:03:36.360 isn't a lot of discussion about it. You could almost assume that the Trudeau government had
00:03:41.400 somehow solved the problem that it had gone away. So, there are still a large number of people coming
00:03:47.080 into Canada illegally. They're either coming illegally across Roxham Road and illegal border crossings
00:03:53.720 across rural Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia, or they're flying to Canada under false pretexts.
00:04:00.920 They're coming with tourist visas, or they're coming with falsified documents and passports,
00:04:06.440 landing at major airports in Canada, only to turn themselves in essentially, claim asylum, say to the
00:04:13.800 Canadian government, I'm a refugee, and the Canadian government by law has to hear their cases. So,
00:04:19.720 the problem is not going away. It's only growing. It's only getting worse. Canadians deserve to know
00:04:25.400 about this. And unfortunately, our media are just so in the bag for the Trudeau government and the
00:04:30.920 Trudeau liberals, they don't want to discuss the issue. They all want a piece of that pie of that
00:04:35.960 of that government bailout money that goes to journalists in Canadian media who use Trudeau
00:04:41.720 government-approved talking points, especially after the passing of the UN Global Compact on Migration,
00:04:47.720 which specifically said that governments were only going to support approved journalists and approved
00:04:53.560 media who use the correct language and the correct talking points when it comes to talking about
00:04:59.080 migration. Well, the reality is that there is still an illegal immigration problem in Canada. There are
00:05:05.000 huge numbers of people coming to our country illegally, and we don't know who they are. We haven't properly 1.00
00:05:10.840 screened them. We don't know. We don't even know always what nationality they are. Where are they coming 0.74
00:05:15.240 from? We rely entirely on their own accounts, their own stories. Well, folks, we know we shouldn't be
00:05:21.400 naive. We know the truth is that many people fabricate their past. Many people lie on their
00:05:25.640 applications. Many people will cheat and take advantage of any loophole possible to have a chance
00:05:31.080 to live in Canada. And that's not right. We have the rule of law in this country. We have a set of
00:05:35.480 immigration laws, and we should demand that our government follow these laws, that people follow these
00:05:41.320 laws when they come to Canada. So I would like to hear a lot more reporting on this issue. It's
00:05:46.200 incredibly important. For True North, I'm Candice Malcolm.