A record surge of migrants crossing the Canadian border from the U.S. is the focus of recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
“The number of arrests along the Canadian border remains a fraction of those from the southwest border, but federal officials along the Canadian border have said they have never before seen this volume of arrests,” wrote Alicia Caldwell in the WSJ.
“Shielded by geography, strict immigration policies favoring the educated and skilled, and its single border with the United States, Canada is now being forced to deal with an issue that has long bedeviled other wealthy Western nations: mass illegal border crossings by land,” reports Norimitsu Onishi in the New York Times.
Thousands of asylum seekers “crossing irregularly into Canada from the United States along a dirt path are becoming a political flashpoint once more as the provincial government of Quebec says it can no longer accommodate the rising numbers,” Al Jazeera reported.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 