39,000 illegals have crossed into Canada from the Roxham Road in 2022. So why not close it? Trudeau’s argument: “We have 6,000 kilometres worth of undefended shared border with the United States, and… people will choose to cross elsewhere.”
Such a ridiculous line of reasoning is as absurd as stating: “Why not do away with all immigration laws because as fast as you fight one immigration lawbreaker, another pops up?” Trudeau has made no secret of his open-door policy when it comes to illegals, to the detriment of those who wait in the queue and respect the laws of the land. Trudeau is infamous for extending a warm welcome to Islamic State fighters and has even stated his belief that they can help Canada. He once said: “We know that actually someone who has engaged and turned out from that hateful ideology can be an extraordinarily powerful voice for preventing radicalization in future generations, and young people within the community.” Trudeau’s belief is contrary to repeated proof that deradicalization programs have been an abject failure. Jihadists are not criminals who want to change. They are religious zealots who believe in rewards for “martyrdom.”
Since 2019, reports have been sketchy at best on the countries of origin of Roxham Road illegals. By 2019, the largest concentration was reportedly from Nigeria, while Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Yemen were in the top 12 countries of origin. Many think it doesn’t matter where the illegals originate, but it does, and this has nothing to do with “racism.” There is no vetting process in place to determine the ideologies of Roxham Road. illegals, or whether they have criminal backgrounds or even contagious illnesses. All we know is that they are economic migrants who are flowing in with the full knowledge that they are breaking the law.
The Roxham Road influx began after Trudeau tweeted his message of welcome to anyone and everyone after Donald Trump imposed his travel ban. Now illegals from around the world have gotten the memo, and Trudeau’s new welcome message that since Canada has an undefended border, he sees no point in closing off Roxham Road.
Niagara Falls and Cornwall are among the cities “receiving thousands of migrants from Roxham Road.” The former is a well known tourist area where migrants are now being housed in many hotels. Jim Diodati, the mayor of Niagara Falls, stated: “There’s only so much the people here can handle. We’re a community of less than a hundred thousand people…..Niagara Falls does not have the capacity to adequately provide those support services and providers are being stretched to their limits.”
Mohammed is one refugee highlighted by CBC. He originates from Chad and “is living in one of the nearly 2,000 hotel rooms reserved in Niagara Falls by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to provide temporary housing to migrants arriving via Roxham Road.” An obvious concern should also be for the tourism industry of Niagara, which is now not far from off from its summer-time peak. Recall what happened in 2018 at the Radisson Toronto East hotel, where about 400 refugees from Africa occupied all but two floors of the hotel, turning the Radisson into a squalid migrant camp. In a bad economy, still struggling to recover from COVID mismanagement, it is going to be a rough summer for Niagara Falls and other communities that are now grappling with the federal government’s continued mismanagement.
“Asylum seekers uncertain of future after being bused to Ontario,” by Ioanna Roumeliotis and Brenda Witmer, CBC, March 4, 2023:
His name is Mohammed and we meet him walking along a boulevard lined with hotels off the tourist strip in Niagara Falls, Ont.
The February wind is biting, and he shivers in a jacket more suited for warmer weather.
Mohammed says he is too scared to disclose more details about himself other than he had to flee Chad, in Central Africa, fearful for his life.
He is one of the thousands of asylum seekers bused here shortly after arriving in Quebec from New York at an irregular border crossing called Roxham Road.
Mohammed was hoping to stay in Quebec because he doesn’t speak English, but he says he wasn’t given a choice when he was boarded onto a bus heading here.
Then he said, speaking in French, “I don’t speak any English, and here in Niagara it’s very difficult for me to communicate.”
Mohammed is living in one of the nearly 2,000 hotel rooms reserved in Niagara Falls by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to provide temporary housing to migrants arriving via Roxham Road and who are now being redirected out of the province.
It’s left him in a strange limbo, he said, adding in French, “I sleep, I wake, I eat.”
He says in the two weeks he’s been here, no one has told him what to expect next.
Mohammed’s story reflects the scramble to move people like him out of Quebec since the province sounded the alarm, saying it could not absorb any more asylum seekers.
‘You can’t just drop them off’
Roughly 39,000 people seeking protection arrived in Quebec from Roxham Road in 2022 alone. According to the latest federal government statistics, another 4,875 people crossed at Roxham Road this past January.Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati says he’s been taken aback by the number of hotel rooms the federal government has been steadily reserving for asylum seekers.
“We went from 87 rooms to 300 rooms, then it went to 687 rooms,” Diodati said. “Then it went to 1,500 rooms, then they said 1,700 and 2,000 is next. So we said, well, where are we going with this? I mean, how big is this gonna get?”
According to IRCC, most migrants are staying in federally funded hotel rooms on average 60 days and are provided with meals while they are assessed for work permits….
However, administering the social services that asylum seekers are entitled to while they try to settle has largely fallen on the city at a cost of roughly $5 million, Diodati says, money the city wants the federal government to compensate it for……
somehistory says
poor baby….not….with that name, and that home country, he’s more likely a danger than in danger.
Guess any newlyweds who wish for a honeymoon there can just forget about it. Because the mozlum mafia has arrived.
somehistory says
p.s. The whine, always the same….it’s never good enough; they supposedly escape torture and death, and danger to them and their families, but they then whine if they are bussed, flown, pampered, fed, housed, because they “wanted” to stay somewhere else, go somewhere else, eat something else and they don’t speak English.
They need to be told they can “take it or leave it” and if they keep whining about this or that, send them back from whence they came.
They are a burden, not a plus.
James Lincoln says
This is what is going on – “Bridges not borders”:
http://www.bridgesnotborders.ca/crossing-at-roxham-road.html
ed says
2 K rooms in Niagara Falls for jihadis?
That will certainly thwart the tourism industry
Dan says
I was listening to Canada’s “Communist Broadcasting Corporation” radio this morning, and a half hour interview with a Hattian immigrant telling about her husband freezing to death in during our winter.
Here’s the gist.
From what I understand, they snuck into the Dominican Republic BUT didn’t want to live there because Hattians were treated terrible. (Sounds like NON WHITES being prejudice to me.) So they went to Brazil BUT… Apparently Brazilians don’t treat them “nice” either, so they went to the States (probably illegally but I’m not sure, and when they heard it was better in Canada, snuck in here.
But Canada didn’t treat them any better so she SAID ON RADIO, they found someone willing to smuggle her husband back into the States.
“The smuggler wanted $2000,” she said, “but we negotiated down to $1500. So the smuggler dropped her husband off at the American border, and left him to die in the winter.”
!?!?!?!?!?
She ACTUALLY SAID, “It was this man’s JOB to get my husband to the border, so he should have also seen to my husband’s safety. This man should have checked the weather, and known better than to leave my husband out there during a winter storm and he needs to be punished for letting my husband die.”
Crazier STILL, the CBC reporter ALSO couldn’t seem to get it through his thick skull, this wife not only saw NOTHING wrong in admitting to having committed several felonies, SHE actually felt there should be some kind of QUALITY CONTROL while committing them.
This whole dang world is nuts.
Craig Austin says
There is no voting our way out of this mess, this will take something different. Something ugly.
OLD GUY says
I wonder how many of these 39,000 illegals will wonder across the border into the U.S.? There’s nothing to stop them, the Northern border is just as open as the southern border.
Funny how as an American born citizen I need a pass port to get back into America from foreign travel but non-citizens can just walk in.
E T says
They all wandered into Canada, thanks to the World Economic Forum / Prime Minister, Justine Trudeau’s invitation. When Canadians were locked down, oppressed by Justine’s government. The little clown Prime Minister was busy calling unvaccinated all sorts of names and asking vaccinated Canadians if they should tolerate the unvaccinated. The poor down trodden coming from the US (33rd country agreement), we’re not required to be vaccinated.
People from the Ukraine, now living in Canada are allowed to go back and forth, even though they are not vaccinated.
I have not seen my grandchildren in 3 years because the mailin guy will not allow me in the Us because I am not vaccinated.
It is called population replacement and depopulation.