Number Of Asylum Seekers From US To Canada Is Increasing Continuously

09 Oct 2019

Unauthorized border crossers from the USA to Canada continued above 2018 level for the third following month in August 2019, the recent figures show. The month observed 1,762 asylum seekers caught by the RCMP later crossing the Canadian border at a point which is unrecognized, correlated to 1,747 in the corresponding month last year.

It indicates that after the numbers looked under control in the initial 5 months of 2019, the following 3 months will be of more attention to the officials of Canada.

Refugee Statistics in Canada

This year to the close of August 2019 has seen 10,343 individuals cross the border from the USA at points which are unrecognized to attempt to access the asylum system of Canada.

At the identical point of 2018, 14,125 individuals had been caught, with a sum of 19,419 captures made in the year 2018 on a whole.

The strong majority of those who pass the border at points which are unrecognized do so into Quebec province, into St Bernard De Lacolle. In the present year 2019, 10,076 out of the 10,343 border crossers or 97% were caught in Quebec.

The situation has shifted to an election problem ahead of the Canadian Oct 21 vote.

The bilateral contract indicates that an asylum seeker has to claim the status of refugees in the first ‘safe’ nation at which they arrive.

It indicates that asylum seekers coming to the U.S. are not authorized to pass into Canada and to claim the status of refugees. If they attempt to pass into Canada from the U.S. at known border points, they will be sent back.

However, they are authorized to claim the status of refugees if they have now made it to Canada, which is why higher than 40,000 crossed at different border points in the years 2017 and 2018 as they attempt to leave the Trump’s USA immigration crackdown.

New Reform on Bill C-97

The Canadian government tried to reform the Refugee and Immigration Protection Act to attempt and prevent the flow of asylum seekers who access the U.S.

The reform, part of Bill C-97 that announced in June 2019, indicates asylum seekers who had earlier made a refugee claim in another nation could not then claim in Canada.

It indicates that asylum seekers, who come to Canada having earlier made a refugee claim in the US, are not qualified to seek asylum in Canada.

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