Canada: Asylum Seekers and Cent

canada: Of those finalized cases, updated data show 54 per cent were accepted down from 60 per cent when the board last reported the data, according to Toronto Star. Read more Canada not ready for second-wave of asylum seekers, union head warns Article Continued Below Immigration Minister warns Haitian border-crossers that Canada will probably reject themU.S. decision to end temporary status for Haitians has Canada on alert for asylum seekers Only eight per cent of Haitians who make up the majority of claims have been accepted, down from 10 per cent. react-empty 163 Over 43,000 claims in total have been sent to the IRB so far this year, a number not seen since a high of 44,000 claims in 2001. As of the end of November, the Immigration and Refugee Board says 16,522 asylum claims were received from people who've crossed the border illegally and 2,198 of those have been completed. The board cautions it's premature to draw conclusions about border crossers based on the small number of claims finalized so far. But just as the IRB was releasing the new statistics, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen used social media to repeat a point the Liberals have been increasingly making in recent weeks as the data have shown many border crossers' claims are being rejected. Failed claimants do also have the right to appeal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.