Canada-U.S. border a growing national security concern, Republican lawmakers argue
Issues of specific concern to Canada often struggle to get oxygen in Congress. But with election-minded Republicans anxious to score points against a Democratic president vulnerable on the immigration file, the northern border presents a novel way of adding fuel to the political fire.
Officials in Kelly’s office say the caucus is bipartisan, although so far no Democrats have taken them up on the standing offer to join.Poilievre calls on Trudeau to implement plan to close Roxham Road border crossing within 30 days From October through January, the first four months of fiscal 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded 55,736 encounters at or near the Canada-U.S. border with people deemed inadmissible.That was more than twice the nearly 24,000 encounters that took place during the same four months the previous year, and already halfway to the 109,535 reported during the entire 12-month stretch of fiscal 2022.
Budlong also cited the case of the Patel family, four Indian nationals who died of exposure in Manitoba during a fearsome blizzard, just steps from the border. The father brought his wife and two kids to Canada as a foreign student, but the U.S. was always their intended destination, he said.Poilievre’s call to close Roxham Road in 30 days ‘reckless’ amid influx of asylum seekers: minister
“Oftentimes, there are more Border Patrol agents from the northern border in my sector than there are in their own areas,” Gonzales said, as he described meeting agents during a shift change last Christmas. Would-be asylum seekers have been flowing from the U.S. across the land border into Canada for years, especially at Roxham Road, a spot near the town of Hemmingford, Que., that’s arguably Canada’s busiest unofficial border crossing.
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