Closing Roxham Road won’t stop irregular migrants coming to Canada: Trudeau
to make the Roxham Road crossings a top priority for next month’s meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, and to renegotiate the agreement.
The public letter didn’t include concerns reportedly expressed by Legault in his letter to Trudeau that the influx of migrants is threatening the French language in Montreal, or his request for more money to pay for the costs of caring for asylum seekers.Federal statistics show that more than 39,000 people claimed asylum after they were intercepted by the RCMP crossing Canada’s land border into Quebec in 2022, compared with only 369 in the rest of the country.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser told Global News in a statement that proposing to close Roxham Road within 30 days “without advancing a plan to manage the consequences will not solve the problem,” and would only promote more irregular border crossings elsewhere.
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