27

Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway(www.reuters.com)

posted
by
Avatar
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca
in
Avatar
canada@lemmy.ca
15 comments
hidereport
Sort:
HotTopControversialNewOld
You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
Avatar
Throwaway@lemm.ee
-14 points

I love how asylum seeker became an euphemism for illegal immigrant, and leftists act like its a good thing.

permalink
report
reply
Avatar
Funderpants @lemmy.ca
21 points

Seeking asylum in Canada is legal.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
Throwaway@lemm.ee
-7 points

But illegally immigrating is not. Two different acts.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
Funderpants @lemmy.ca
17 points

That’s why there are two different words, which are neither synonyms nor euphemisms, this story is about asylum, features stories about individuals seeking asylum and your attempt to confound the two didn’t work.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Show more comments
Avatar
grte@lemmy.ca
7 points

A) Asylum is legal. B) 39,000 people in a year represents a population gain of…0.001%. Horrifying.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
zephyreks@lemmy.ca
7 points

Actually… It’s a gain of 0.1%. it’s also 9% of all new immigrants to Canada in a given year. It’s also 4x the limit of the recent H1B holders visa program for skilled immigrants who could not stay in the US.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
lasagna@programming.dev
2 points

These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
Ilikepornaddict@lemmynsfw.com
-3 points

Agreed, but don’t talk about it on lemmy, nobody wants to listen.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Canada

!canada@lemmy.ca

Create post

What’s going on Canada?

Communities

🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
🏒 Sports

Hockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Universities
💵 Finance / Shopping
🗣️ Politics
🍁 Social and Culture

Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca

Community stats

  • 2.9K

    Monthly active users

  • 5.8K

    Posts

  • 54K

    Comments

Community moderators