Resources to assist people crossing at Roxham Road are increasingly strained, say community organizations in Quebec and Ontario.
Asylum seekers arrive at Roxham Road, which is not an official border stop. It is now staffed by RCMP officers who process new arrivals.
Since the weekend, the transfers have increased. Quebec's immigration minister said this week that of the 505 migrants who entered the country through an unofficial border crossing at Roxham Road on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 475 were transferred to other provinces. Adrienne Jugley, the commissioner of community services for the region, said the number of asylum seekers staying in hotels rented by the federal government increased progressively toward the end of the year.
"We want to support these people. We want them to settle in and be safe. How do we do that? And where do we do that?" she said 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.
"We have a combined tsunami from the wave of asylum seekers and the continuing inflation," he said in an interview Thursday.
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