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RSS FeedsNew data show 69% of illegal border-crossers are being granted asylum
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20 october 2017 02:41:05

 
New data show 69% of illegal border-crossers are being granted asylum
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Almost 70 per cent of refugees who illegally cross the U.S. border into Canada are granted asylum here, despite the widespread public view that these border-crossers are not real refugees in need of protection.That’s according to data released this week for the first time by the Immigration and Refugee Board.Since January, The RCMP have intercepted more than 15,100 people entering through unguarded border item points from the United States, after President Donald Trump came into power and issued a series of executive orders to expedite deportation of foreign nationals and ban immigration from certain countries.Of the 10,790 asylum claims received from March to September of this year, the refugee board has processed 592, or 5.4 per cent. Of those claims 69 per cent, or 408 cases, were granted asylum, while 141 were rejected. Forty-three other claims were either abandoned or withdrawn.The acceptance rate for the border-crossers is even higher than the 63-per-cent overall rate for asylum-seekers in 2016.One expert said the group’s high acceptance rate could be skewed if the refugee board is prioritizing cases from countries that tend to have stronger claims.However, academics and refugee advocates also emphasize the data show the border-crossers have a legitimate need for protection.“The numbers show that the majority of the so-called border-crossers have genuine asylum claims. The message I take is that the Canadian refugee system is working. It is doing its job,” said Queen’s University immigration and refugee law professor Sharry Aiken.Aiken and others are concerned that only a small fraction of the claims have been processed so far.“The refugee board is under-resourced despite the spike in the number of claims. With the U.S. temporary protection of the Haitians in the country ending in January, Canada will see another spike of border-crossers and we need to be ready for it,” she said.The experts also question the validi ...


 
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