Juno News - September 11, 2018


Thousands of rejected illegal border-crossers still in Canada

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Andrew Lutton
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Bill Blair Justin Trudeau
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3 minutes

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158.68

Word count

490

Sentence count

17

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2

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Andrew Lutton and Andrew Zakiya Chaudhuri discuss the surge in illegal border crossers, and the government's handling of the situation, and why it may not be as bad as it seems. They're joined by Andrew Lutton of the True North Initiative, and Andrew Choudhuri of the Toronto Star.

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00:00:00.400 Hashtag welcome to Canada, remember that?
00:00:03.220 Yeah, it seems like ages ago now.
00:00:04.720 That was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's giant welcome sign
00:00:07.540 to what would eventually become tens of thousands of illegal border crossers.
00:00:11.700 Now, it's only been since last April, so a year and a few months ago,
00:00:16.040 that the federal government started tracking what has now been over 32,000 illegal border crossers
00:00:21.920 just walking into Canada, despite the act that basically says
00:00:26.200 if you're in the United States, you can't seek asylum in Canada
00:00:29.400 if you cross legally.
00:00:31.440 Well, we've talked about that a fair bit before,
00:00:33.820 but now there's a chilling set of statistics that's been published by the Toronto Star to its credit,
00:00:38.900 and that is that of all of these illegal border crossers, just 398 have been deported.
00:00:46.000 Now, this by no means is telling us that all but 398 have been granted asylum.
00:00:51.060 In fact, there have actually been a significant number of asylum claim rejections in this,
00:00:56.680 thousands as a matter of fact.
00:00:58.180 We don't have the numbers up to today, but we're probably at about the 9,000 or 10,000 range,
00:01:03.280 and that's only of the cases that have been heard and determined.
00:01:06.200 There's a giant backlog here.
00:01:08.160 But of the thousands of asylum claims that have been rejected,
00:01:11.200 just 398 have actually been deported,
00:01:14.340 which means we have people who are not supposed to be in Canada 0.66
00:01:17.860 that the government may or may not be tracking.
00:01:20.540 And given how often we hear about how underfunded and understaffed the border agencies are,
00:01:25.140 I would think it's probably a fair assumption to say that there is not tracking being done
00:01:29.940 on the people who are determined to have not just entered Canada illegally,
00:01:33.280 but are not eligible to remain here as asylum seekers, as any sort of claimant in that area.
00:01:39.800 And this is, I think, underscoring what people like me have been sounding the alarm about for months
00:01:45.060 and for over a year now, in fact, which is that we have had now a refugee influx or an asylum influx
00:01:50.880 that has gotten to the point where we can't possibly manage it.
00:01:54.600 And I don't see any signs of this slowing down,
00:01:57.120 despite Canada having a new minister responsible for border security.
00:02:01.320 Bill Blair, Canada's new minister of border security, doesn't seem to be anywhere on the issue.
00:02:05.300 In fact, the agencies and boards responsible, the Immigration and Refugee Asylum Board,
00:02:10.920 the Canadian Border Services Agency, none of these groups actually report to Bill Blair.
00:02:16.200 So what are we doing to, first off, stop the influx, 1.00
00:02:19.640 and secondly, deal with the ejection of people from Canada that don't belong in Canada?
00:02:24.640 The government has been completely silent on that,
00:02:27.200 which once again shows us how much of a sham the border crisis is to the Liberals.
00:02:31.900 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:02:35.300 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.