World View: Canada Receives Record Numbers of Mexican Asylum Seekers After Trudeau’s Welcome Tweet
Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau’s welcome tweet
Mexicans are seeking asylum in Canada at a rate four times greater than in 2016. The first three months of 2017 already saw more cases recorded than in the entire year 2016.
One reason for the surge is president Trump’s travel ban, announced in January, which raised concern in refugees that they might be prevented from entering the United States. Instead of trying to cross the border into the US, they get on a plane that takes them to the airport in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada.
The second reason is that Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau invited them in. In 2016, Trudeau eliminated a visa requirement, imposed in 2008, for Mexicans traveling to Canada. The visa requirement sharply reduced the number of migrants, until it was lifted.
In addition, Trudeau decided to react to Trump’s travel ban by tweeting the following on January 28:
To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength[1] #WelcomeToCanada
Trudeau’s tweet was followed by a picture of him greeting a refugee family. The two tweets garnered over a million likes and half-a-million retweets.
The Canadian government has threatened to reinstate the visa requirement, and has told the Mexican government that it will do so if asylum claims continue to increase. Canadian Broadcasting (16-Apr) and Daily Caller (17-Apr) and Canadian Broadcasting (3-Apr)
Gonna be fun watching the MS-13 'beaners' get along yer 'jihadi' muslims....funny thought about Canada offering to pay for the 'Wall'....
hilarious: AMERICAN so-called conservatives, wringing their hands over another country showing what classless idiots the Amercian 'conservative' tend towards being.
Pudfark wrote: Mon May 29, 2017 11:15 am
I live in Texas....you live in America.
callmeslick wrote: Sat May 13, 2017 4:16 pm
hilarious: AMERICAN so-called conservatives, wringing their hands over another country showing what classless idiots the Amercian 'conservative' tend towards being.
'wringing their hands'.....Hell, we celebrating. You whining again and it's affecting yer spelling...again. Nice to see Justin making R_D man up and tote the load. You on the 'other hand' are in the nose bleed seats hoping for a fight on the field, that your location, precludes your own involvement.
I hope yer wife and family likes the 'taste of beaners'.....R_D two/too. It's easy for them removed..or used to be..to talk crap. Taste, is altogether different. You have spoken about your affinity for it....so, I know you won't complain. Suck it up.
Pudfark wrote: Sun May 14, 2017 12:44 am
I hope yer wife and family likes the 'taste of beaners'.....R_D two/too. It's easy for them removed..or used to be..to talk crap. Taste, is altogether different. You have spoken about your affinity for it....so, I know you won't complain. Suck it up.
