DHS announced in May that the extension for those
that came here because of a natural disaster will be extended one more
time. What you don’t hear, is that these people could start the process
of citizenship and be granted a reprieve, but they don’t do that. More
than 5,000 have crossed into Canada so far. Canadian officials told the
AP they estimated 400 illegals crossed the border at the
Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle this Sunday alone. Montreal’s iconic Olympic
Stadium has been transformed into a refugee center to handle the influx
and it is almost full. The Canadians encouraged this problem and they
will now have to deal with it.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Canadian government is sending “about 100” soldiers to assist police and border guards at the remote road on the Quebec-New York border that has become the nexus of an outpouring of illegal aliens living in America.
The back road crossing, with no official border post, near Champlain, New York, and Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, has seen thousands of people, mostly Haitians residing in the United States, come by taxi and other conveyences to try to illegally enter Canada. Typically, the outflow is reported as resulting from “fear” of the climate created for illegals in the United States.
Haitians in particular may be agitated because the “temporary protective status” (TPS) many of them were granted in the aftermath of that country’s devastating 2011 earthquake may be coming to an end. The status, granted by the Department of Homeland Security to specific groups of people suffering from war or natural disaster, has been extended time and again over the last seven years from its original six-month grant. TPS was never meant to grant the Haitians covered by it permanent residence in the United States, and they were expected to return to Haiti when the disaster had passed. Read more.....
