The federal government is planning to build temporary housing for up to 520 people at a Quebec border crossing that has seen an influx of asylum seekers. The move comes just as tens of thousands of Hondurans have lost their temporary protected immigration status in the United States. Public Works and the Canada Border Services Agency say in a notice that the housing units are for Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle — the municipality where most of RCMP interceptions of irregular migrants in Quebec take place. The opposition Conservatives say the Liberal government is effectively setting up a refugee camp at the Canada-U.S. border. This latest decision gives more than 57,000 Hondurans with temporary protected status a year and a half to leave the U.S. or obtain legal residency in other ways.

Source: CBC News May 04, 2018 21:45 UTC