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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you.
Trudeau reacted to Trump's ban of Muslims from certain countries by tweeting Saturday: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada."
Trudeau also posted a picture of him greeting a Syrian child at Toronto's airport in late 2015. Trudeau oversaw the arrival of more than 39,000 Syrian refugees soon after he was elected.
Trudeau's tweet quickly received more than 150,000 likes. "Welcome to Canada" trended in Canada.
originally posted by: DanDanDat
Do you think he can be persuaded to also take the refugees on the southern border? Instead of deporting them back to Mexico after a stint in a detention center; just pick them up at the board and bus them over into Canada. Then everyone can be happy.
originally posted by: c2oden
originally posted by: DanDanDat
Do you think he can be persuaded to also take the refugees on the southern border? Instead of deporting them back to Mexico after a stint in a detention center; just pick them up at the board and bus them over into Canada. Then everyone can be happy.
The bus would be empty before they reached Canada.
People are not coming here to move to the great white north.
originally posted by: DanDanDat
originally posted by: c2oden
originally posted by: DanDanDat
Do you think he can be persuaded to also take the refugees on the southern border? Instead of deporting them back to Mexico after a stint in a detention center; just pick them up at the board and bus them over into Canada. Then everyone can be happy.
The bus would be empty before they reached Canada.
People are not coming here to move to the great white north.
If we can keep them locked up in tents. I'm sure we can do something about them bus doors for a few hours
Canada’s minister of immigration, Ahmed Hussen, himself a former refugee who moved to the country from Somalia when he was 16, said Canada was proud to be a welcoming country but could not welcome everyone. Only about 8 percent of Haitian migrants had received asylum here since the summer, he said, while there is a backlog of about 40,700 cases, according to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.
“We don’t want people to illegally enter our border, and doing so is not a free ticket to Canada,” Mr. Hussen said in an interview. “We are saying, ‘You will be apprehended, screened, detained, fingerprinted, and if you can’t establish a genuine claim, you will be denied refugee protection and removed.’ ”