There are so many Mounties needed to process illegal border crossings in rural Quebec that the federal government is now spending $250,000 to build an unofficial police station on the U.S. border. The RCMP intercepted 1,890 illegal border crossers in the first three months of 2017. The backlog is complicated even further by the fact that illegal border crossers are already in the country when they file refugee claims. In a recent House of Commons speech, Conservative public safety critic Pierre Paul-Hus called the tweet “the root of” illegal border crossings. Of the 2,552 claims from illegal border crossers that were finalized in 2017, only 53 per cent were accepted as refugees.

Source: National Post May 01, 2018 21:00 UTC