The US National Guard has helped arrest more than 10,000 illegal immigrants along the United States’ southern border with Mexico since their deployment earlier this year, according to new statistics released by the Border Patrol Agency.
National Guard are not enforcing the law, so really pointless headline.
Not when you consider that going back at least the previous 6 administrations we had more lax enforcement.
Canada has her own “crisis” to look after. OOOps, can I call it a crisis?
“Without changes to improve efficiency and productivity of the asylum process, wait times and backlogs will only continue to grow,” Ahmed Hussen wrote in an Aug. 14 letter to the Canadian Bar Association. “This situation is not sustainable, nor is it fair to the people who need Canada’s protection.”
Fact check: true! As of the end of June, the backlog of claimants
was more than 55,000 — five times larger than when Justin Trudeau took office. The timeline for adjudicating the average claim is stretching toward a ludicrous three years. The extra resources the government has dedicated to the surge of “irregular” crossings, chiefly along the New York-Quebec border, are plainly insufficient.
The funny thing, though, is that Hussen and his government have tolerated no criticism on this file. Heaven help anyone who calls it a “crisis,” lest he be deemed intolerant or demagogic or worse. Far smaller countries in Europe are dealing perfectly well with far larger numbers of asylum-seekers, we are often told — correctly. How odd, then, to see the minister admit that he’s made a hash of it.
Oh Canada…
