Juno News - There's still a crisis at our border

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.

Juno News - July 31, 2019

There's still a crisis at our border

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