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Refugee: Refugee Claimants and Border

refugee: The numbers include those seeking asylum at official points of entry, and those stopped by police after crossing in remote locations, according to Hamilton Spectator. There were seven refugee claimants in each year between 2011 and 2013, four in 2014 and only two in 2015. According to figures released by the Canadian Border Services Agency, there were 23 refugee claimants at the border in 2016 more than the previous four years combined. According to the border agency, there was one refugee claimant at the New Brunswick border last month. LeBlanc said he's at a loss to explain the spike in the numbers last year. The driving force behind a lot of people coming to Canada either immigrating through established streams of coming as refugees is that they want a safe place to live and raise their family, said Alex LeBlanc, executive director of the New Brunswick Multicultural Council. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.