Refugee Claims: Border and People

refugee claims: What is happening at our border right now is illegal, according to Huffington Post Canada. Conservative MP and leadership candidate Erin O'Toole. ----- Since the start of 2017, there's been a marked increase in the number of people arriving in Canada from the U.S. to seek asylum. NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan. More than 1,000 people have filed refugee claims at the Quebec-U.S. border since January, compared with about 200 during the same time last year. Some of those claimants entered Canada at official ports of entry formal border crossings where hundreds of thousands of people each year present their travel documents to border officers for inspection before being allowed into the country. In Manitoba, at least 107 people have filed asylum claims at the border since January, compared with 45 in the first two months of last year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.