A Niagara region community group says it was already dealing with an increase in requests for assistance from asylum seekers.
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The Regional Municipality of Niagara says the federal government is doubling the number of hotel rooms for asylum seekers in the region, which has officials worried about their ability to provide services. That “dramatic increase … has certainly raised our concerns about our local resources’ ability to respond,” she said in an interview Thursday.Article content
IRCC said that since it began transferring asylum claimants entering Quebec to the Ontario cities of Ottawa, Windsor, Cornwall and Niagara Falls in July, 5,557 claimants have been transferred to the province. Federal government statistics show that 39,171 asylum seekers were intercepted by the RCMP on Quebec’s southern border in 2022, up from 4,095 in 2021. They accounted for more than 99 per cent of all asylum seekers who crossed the Canadian border irregularly in 2022. In total, around 60 per cent of all people claiming asylum in Canada in 2022 arrived through Quebec.
Patrice said more than 700 asylum seekers are registered to receive services from his organization, up from 62 three years ago. The increase comes at a time when he’s also seeing increased demand for his services from people struggling to keep up with inflation.
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