If you are on the right, the sudden flood of asylum-seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border is easily explicable as the inevitable consequence of Justin Trudeau’s online recklessness. Almost all of the roughly 7,000 asylum-seekers to have arrived since then are from one country: Haiti. Too late — the Haitians have adopted the same strategy followed by earlier asylum-seekers: crossing the border on foot, rather than by air or sea, and over open country, rather than the usual crossing points. I don’t want to minimize the situation: there are other groups in the U.S. whose visas will also soon expire, meaning potentially thousands more asylum-seekers crossing the border in the months to come. This is difficult to admit: those of us in politics and the media are in the easy answers business.

Source: National Post August 25, 2017 23:15 UTC