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8/24/17, "Canada ramps up deportations amid growing migrant influx," Reuters, Toronto
8/17/17, Asylum Seekers, Quebec, Reuters |
Deportations
of Mexicans, who have flocked to Canada in growing numbers after a visa
requirement was lifted in December, was already 66 percent higher in
the first eight months of 2017 than the total from the previous year.
Deportations
of Haitians, thousands of whom have crossed into Canada illegally in
the hopes of avoiding deportation from the United States, have also
soared. Canada has deported 474 so far this year, compared to 100 for
all of 2016 when the government lifted its own ban on deportations to
Haiti, in place since a devastating 2010 earthquake.
Overall, 5,529 people have been deported as of Tuesday, compared to 7,357 for all of 2016, the data shows.
Canada's
Immigration and Refugee Board has called a rise in asylum-seekers
through the U.S. border "unsustainable," and Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau's government, fretting about another big surge in asylum claims,
has been trying to warn people away.
At the
same time, Canada said this week it will be granting border-crossing
asylum seekers swifter access to healthcare. They will also be eligible
for work permits sooner.
Refugee claimants
are eligible for health coverage and work permits once their claims are
processed, but that can take weeks or months.
More
than 10,000 asylum seekers have walked across the U.S. border into
Canada to file refugee claims so far this year, including 3,800 into
Quebec in the first two weeks of August alone, authorities have said.
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