On Friday, January 12, 2018 at 6:35:09 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> We currently have a prime minister who panders to the immigrant vote
> and, despite our country bringing in 10,000 refugees per year... vetting
> them, paying their way here and housing them, he pledged to bring in
> 25,000 by the end of that year. On top of that, we have at least 15,000
> more who come here as visitors and then when they arrive they claim
> refugee status.
>
> We have a third safe country deal that means refugee claimants coming
> from a safe country will not be admitted, but that applies only at
> regular manned crossing, so now we have then streaming across the
> borders from the US. Most of them are being rejected because they are
> no legitimate refugees. The are economic migrants and they are fleeing
> the US because special programs that allowed them to stay in the US
> after disasters in their homeland are ending. Ours already ended.
>
> What we should be doing is assisting with housing them in areas closer
> to home so that they can return when things calm down back home. We
> should only be giving them visas to allow them to stay, or permanent
> residence, not citizenship.
>
> A lot of them are more interested in citizenship and a passport than in
> living here. There are many thousands of middle easterners living and
> working overseas, mainly in the middle east, with American and Canadian
> passports. They are citizens of convenience.
>
> Canada fast tracked thousands of Lebanese to citizenship because of
> conflict at home. A few years back, when Israel pounded Lebanon, we had
> 55,000 "Canadians" who were screaming to be evacuated from Lebanon.
> They were mostly those who had come here for citizenship and then
> returned to their homeland. We spent millions to rescue those citizens
> of convenience and shortly after things settled down back in Lebanon
> most of them went back there to their real homes.

Sounds like your country is doing the right thing.