It's funny that people who have PR status ( RO may/may not be fulfilled) trying to figure out how to get back into the country without being detected.
Whereas Nigerians / Haitians just walk into the country through the undeclared border points with the US without any hassle.
It is NOT true that Nigerians or Haitians are just walking into Canada through the undeclared border points with the US without any hassle. With few exceptions they are interdicted and processed by CBSA almost immediately. This is as intended. Those who are not interdicted at the time of crossing, with some exceptions, seek out and initiate processing by CBSA or IRCC, so as to (they hope) obtain protected person status. They are seeking asylum. They will be DEPORTED unless they successfully prosecute a valid claim for asylum.
The extent of hassle that course of action involves is hard and oppressive. A real hassle.
And any doubts about the reasoning for the migration north of these individuals, for whom the U.S. had been providing asylum, are deeply rooted in ignorance (a lack of information about what is happening in that S*hole country to our south) or racism or, at the very least, a profound lack of compassion.
There probably is a significant number who elect to slip into the populace and avoid process, but unofficial immigration, more recently labeled "illegal" immigration following a trend established by less-accommodating, less-compassionate Americans beginning several decades ago, has always been a significant element in the migration of populations suffering extreme duress. Destination countries like Canada are, generally, well-situated to adapt (in contrast, some countries in other parts of the world can be overwhelmed by a massive influx of people fleeing danger).
Hopefully we will see NEW WORLD ORDER SOON.
NOT me, not by a long shot.
Sensible, reasonable people will RESIST the New World Order currently under construction. The U.S. appears to be hard fixed on a path to sever or extensively curtail BOTH economic and security/defense relationships with Europe, the UK, Australia, important Asian allies,
and Canada (Trump has already taken some actions purportedly based on Canada being a security threat to the U.S.), and instead become an ally of an expanding Russia. This is not yet written in history let alone stone, but that is the current trajectory and it will require a remarkably strong and successfull resistance in the U.S., including the resounding defeat of the Trump Party (officially albeit misleadingly bearing the "Republican" label) by 2020, to avert it.
Just look at today's headlines about Canada imposing huge new tariffs on goods coming from the U.S., a necessary response to the insane machinations of the American Trump administration's Molotov cocktail approach to trade relationships. Almost no one failed to be cognizant of persistent problems with NAFTA, but just as it is with many or most big deal and problematic issues in the world today, no easy fix is readily available. Blowing it up, however, and along the way smashing the tax and tariff infrastructure upon which TENS if NOT HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars in contractual relationships between U.S. and Canadian businesses depend, cannot be assumed to be rooted in mere misunderstanding or foolish recklessness. The Trump Party almost certainly is advancing an agenda, deliberately pursuing a NEW WORLD ORDER agenda, and Canada is going to be caught between succumbing to its big bully neighbour and joining it, in a groveling subservient role, OR maintaining its alliances with other members of the G6 (G7 minus the U.S.) and allies.
Not a pretty picture either way. "
There's a hard rain a gonna fall."
I was living and working in the U.S. in 2000 and 2001. I went to the American Capitol the day Bush II was inaugurated in January 2001 and, rather futilely if not foolishly (for an old man) carried a sign in protest for most of the day, much it in a cold, cold rain. And then like more than a few others, doing what perhaps I should have done when in 1969 my draft lottery number came up low enough to face the draft (confession: I exercised the most cowardly way possible to avoid directly engaging in the American atrocity in Southeast Asia, I joined a branch of the military in a program which would keep me from going to Vietnam), I packed up as much as they would allow me to bring across the border and came north. Sure, there was also a woman to blame. With much love and affection and gratitude I should add. I expected Canada to be a mere stepping stone in my exile, but she helped me to learn how good it can be to be a Canadian (and her partner); so here I am, deeply grateful to the refuge and life this great country has provided me, and appreciative of the fact that this country, now MY country, is embracing almost as many immigrants as it practically can, reuniting families from around the world, offering refuge to many thousands of those who need a safe haven, and of course also attracting those who have the skills to help Canada's economy thrive . . . as well as it can . . . which, make no mistake, is NOT going to go smoothly in the coming years given the bellicose bully governing that overgrown, callow, and insolent country which dominates our part of the world.
It is disheartening to see how much a narcissistic,
how-does-this-affect-me-personally, attitude influences the way so many approach the Canadian immigration system.
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The times they are a'changing." And NO, that New World Order on the horizon, that's not something to hope for. It's a dark, dark cloud.
Those like me, who Canada has allowed to come and stay, we should all be very grateful. There is a good chance the storm will pass. There is, however, too much a chance things will continue going in the direction Putin and Trump and many oligarchs (in addition to the Russians many many more who are not Russian) are driving things.
Buckle your seat belts. Could be a wild
white-knuckle bumpy road ahead.
