Is President Trump To Blame For Turmoil In Canada's Refugee System?

To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada

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Reuters: Collateral damage: How Trump threw Canada's refugee system into turmoil

TORONTO (Reuters) - Buffered by three oceans and the United States to the south, Canada has for decades had the luxury of being able to pick and choose its newcomers. So few asylum seekers crossed the U.S. border illegally over the years that Canada didn’t consistently track the numbers.

That has changed dramatically over the past 14 months. U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his move to strip Haitians, Salvadorans and others of their temporary legal status have had a broad effect on Canada’s refugee system, Reuters interviews with social service providers, government officials and a review of Canadian immigration data show.

More than 20,000 people, including thousands of Haitians and Nigerians and hundreds of Turks, Syrians and Eritreans, have crossed the border into Canada illegally over the past year in search of asylum, many fleeing in fear that Trump would deport them to their home countries.

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WNU Editor: I live in Canada and I have been helping/advising migrants from eastern Europe on how to come to Canada for years. I am well acquainted with Canada's immigration system, and I follow the news on this issue very closely. The above article is .... to put it bluntly .... wrong to blame President Trump for Canada's refugee/immigration system into a mess. What put the system into turmoil was when Canadian Prime Minister opened the doors to migrants around the world when he tweeted a week after President Trump was inaugurated that they were/are welcomed in Canada (see above tweet). I warned at the time that this was going to change everything .... Canada Is Becoming A Destination Of Choice For Migrants (February 11, 2017) .... and it has. And while President Trump's immigration policies and rhetoric may have made some migrants look at Canada as a safe refuge .... this crisis was happening long before he was elected.