Liberals to spend $1B over 5 years to stem flow of irregular asylum seekers Budget2019
A $1.18 billion plan over five years is promised in the 2019 federal budget to beef up border security.
Canada wants to maintain its reputation as a fair and welcoming country, but one that is also governed by the rule of law, said Finance Minister Bill Morneau. We will invest in a comprehensive border enforcement strategy to better detect and intercept people who cross into Canada irregularly....New money will also be added to speed up processing of refugee claims, with a plan to complete 50,000 claims per year. The influx of irregular migrants, together with an overall increase in refugee claims in Canada, has led to a major backlog of claims at the Immigration and Refugee Board.
More than 40,000 asylum seekers have crossed into the country via the Canada-U.S. border"irregularly" since 2017 — avoiding official border checkpoints where they would have been turned back to the U.S. under the Safe Third Country agreement between the two countries.
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