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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 3305390" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/world/canada/quebec-immigrants-haitians.html" target="_blank">Migrants Fleeing to Canada Learn Even a Liberal Nation Has Limits</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Canada’s minister of immigration, Ahmed Hussen, himself <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/canada/ahmed-hussen-canada-immigration-minister.html" target="_blank">a former refugee</a> who moved to the country from Somalia when he was 16, said Canada was proud to be a welcoming country but could not welcome everyone. Only about 8 percent of Haitian migrants had received asylum here since the summer, he said, while there is a backlog of about 40,700 cases, according to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.</p><p></p><p>“We don’t want people to illegally enter our border, and doing so is not a free ticket to Canada,” Mr. Hussen said in an interview. “We are saying, ‘You will be apprehended, screened, detained, fingerprinted, and if you can’t establish a genuine claim, you will be denied refugee protection and removed.’ ”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 3305390, member: 12952"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/world/canada/quebec-immigrants-haitians.html']Migrants Fleeing to Canada Learn Even a Liberal Nation Has Limits[/URL] Canada’s minister of immigration, Ahmed Hussen, himself [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/canada/ahmed-hussen-canada-immigration-minister.html']a former refugee[/URL] who moved to the country from Somalia when he was 16, said Canada was proud to be a welcoming country but could not welcome everyone. Only about 8 percent of Haitian migrants had received asylum here since the summer, he said, while there is a backlog of about 40,700 cases, according to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. “We don’t want people to illegally enter our border, and doing so is not a free ticket to Canada,” Mr. Hussen said in an interview. “We are saying, ‘You will be apprehended, screened, detained, fingerprinted, and if you can’t establish a genuine claim, you will be denied refugee protection and removed.’ ” [/QUOTE]
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