Conservative MP Lianne Rood uploaded documents showing the “goods and services” provided to asylum claimants while they await processing.

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    CROSSING THE BORDER AT AN UNOFFICIAL ENTRY POINT TO CLAIM ASYLUM IS NOT ILLEGAL.

    To enter Canada without prior authorization for NOT ILLEGAL. The purpose of seeking asylum is not a crime under international and Canadian law.

    Why? Because it is not always safe or even possible for a person running for his/her life to obtain proper travel documents to reach safety in another country.

    unhcr.ca

    The NP and PCs have to bigot, because bigots gotta bigot.

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      I think the bigger problem is the amount of people seeking “asylum” vs the people actually needing asylum. In both the US and Canada it is being used as a loophole.

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        Do you have any kind of source or reference that indicates this is any kind of an issue?

        Is this akin to “that one guy” who fakes homelessness to scam pennies?

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          There’s some reporting at the US border. The cartel brings you to the border and tells you what to say for a price in the thousands per person. They put you through and you tell them you are in specific personal danger if you return.

          I don’t know if this guy counts as a journalist, but here’s a youtube documentary: https://youtu.be/buZWVQuqx0o?si=Zs03_FBV9ck6EfCX

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    Good? 140$ per night for a hotel room is roughly what I would have expected, it’s not like this government (or the Conservatives) would ever consider building and operating their own housing, so this is the only option…

    I imagine the problem here is that we need more government workers hired to process asylum seekers, but once again would we expect the Conservative government (the one that has been on and off criticising the number federal workers we have) to actually hire more people to fix that?

    I’m so tired of reading these low effort “news” pieces

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      Conservatives would really prefer to force Holiday Inn to house asylum seekers for 10$/day because they apparently hate the free market. Their words - not mine.

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    Yeah, we should instead be spending $500 per person per day to securely confine asylum seekers and give daily whippings to men, women, children who are trying to escape hardship.

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