A couple of weeks ago Canada's Somali-born, Muslim Minister of Refugees, Immigration and Political Correctness assured worried Canuck taxpayers that the flood of "refugees" and asylum-seekers breaking across the US-Canada (See "1000s of Haïtians invade Canada as Trudeau government dithers", WWW 17/8/17) had slowed to a trickle. As surely as the sun rises in the east, statistics released today by his own department show the number of asylum seekers arriving at the Canada-US border increased by 82% in August, compared with July.
The latest data shows 5712 mostly non-white people intercepted (but not turned back) by the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen [Mounties, surely! Ed.] in August, up from 3134 in July. More than 5550 of what the Liberal government calls "encounters" were in Québec, near the official border crossing point at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle. British Columbia also registered a small surge, with numbers there doubling from 51 people stopped in July (and then put on a bus to the welfare office) to 102 in August.
The figures released today show the problem is chiefly at land crossings along the world's longest undefended border. (And trust me, "undefended" is the key word there.) The number of asylum-seekers intercepted at airports has been steady at about 275 per month all year.
In total, 13,211 people have been intercepted by the RCMP in between official points of entry since the start of the year. The vast majority of them came to Canada in search of asylum from the evil racist regime of Donald Trump. At least, that's what they tell the Mounties while their luggage is being loaded onto the hotel shuttle. But the latest stats show that the number of actual asylum claims lodged once the border-jumpers get their welfare cheques is considerably smaller than the number of those stopped.
Meanwhile, the anti-refugee, anti-immigrant backlash continues to grow proportionately. The majority of Canadians, including immigrants who went through the proper channels to get into the Great Not-so-white North, is fed up. Will Junior and his diverse band of merry cisgendered acolytes pay any attention to the latest public opinion polls? Walt doubts it. Lifetime pct .978.
Further reading: "Canada braces for tsunami of DREAMers", WWW 5/9/17.
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