Asylum Seekers: Health Checks and Border Crossers

asylum seekers: To be clear trying to slip across the border in an irregular manner is not a free ticket into Canada, reads the statement, which was recirculated to media this week for stories about a recent increase in illegal border crossers, according to Huffington Post Canada. The asylum seekers are apprehended and secured by police or local authorities. That's the message Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale wanted to send with a statement shared to his website in March. Their identities are determined from both biographic and biometric information. Their records are examined for any immigration, criminal or terrorist flags against both Canadian and international databases, it stated. Health checks are done. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.