SETT-2000: Canada's Immigration Policy and Societal Impact Analysis

This report examines Canada's immigration system, focusing on the challenges posed by the influx of refugees and asylum seekers, particularly those crossing the border at informal locations like Roxham Road. It delves into the complexities of Canada's immigration policies, including the distin...Read More

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Canada is in a state of turmoil as another wave of refugees challenges the consensus
on migration. When it comes to the country ' s proposal to accept more than 300,000
immigrants this year, the number of asylum seekers who cross the border at informal
locations is not that large. Nonetheless, the question isn't how many people are coming. It's
how they come. Where they come, Americans who make the country north romantic as a
kind of liberal kingdom are part of the story lacking. Canada preserves its image like an open
door because it is normally very limited to whom the door can be opened (Keller, 2019).
Nearly all immigrants to Canada must apply first of all from abroad and are vetted
extensively by Canadian authorities before being granted entry. The cutters have to wait for
months or years before they are allowed in. Approximately five million immigrants have
chosen Canada over the past 20 years. But only after Canada chose them was the
overwhelming majority entering the country.
As for illegal or unauthorized immigration, Canadian policymakers have been
working— secretly — to do as little as possible of this from all ends of the political spectrum.
A major and steadfastly upheld pillar of Canada's generally welcome immigration policy
(Anderson, 2014).
In a way, Canada has a frontier curtain. It has five of them, reportedly. The fifth is
bureaucratic, four is geographic. The credibility and effectiveness of Canada's immigration
policy were all extremely effective in upholding.
There is a bad geographical luck three walls: the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Arctic.
Through Asia, you can reach the Aegean in a dinghy, but if you don't have the strength to sail
to Canada on a ship and crew qualified to handle miles of rough ice. In 2018, exactly ten
asylum applications have been received by Canada at seaports.

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Canada's south boundary with the United States is the fourth wall. Historically, the
leading world economy was a magnet and not the other way around. The numbers of
emigrants from Canada to the US were at times so large in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries that the Canadians were indeed worried about their country's future. The power of
the US economy for a long time led to a few immigrants thinking of using the United States
like the back door in Canada. The fifth wall was Canadian Conservative and Liberal
governments ' administrative obstacle to closing any other security holes.
The Government of Canada aims to prevent those trying, through anything other than
lawful and normal means, to permanently move to Canada.
Given the reputation of Canada for being an open-door country, it has some of the
most stringent visa rules in the world. Canada was ranked among the worst worldwide in
terms of restrictions for tourists by a World Economic Forum survey of travel professionals
and tourism professionals—120th out of 136 countries. This is a relaxed but efficient way to
prevent illegal immigration.
There's also a place where the immigration system of Canada does not work and from
where it was created an outcry. Roxham Road is a quiet country road, just a few meters away
from the border with Canada, on a dead-end in Upper New York. Thousands of people have
traveled from the United States to Canada across the border and claimed asylum over the last
eighteen months. It will happen if the agreement for migration in my country comes to an end
(something that I hope can be avoided).
Someone who is already in the US and who just wants to walk into Canada at any
random location across the world's longest unfavored frontier can get around the entire
system of bureaucratic dissuasion. Normally, this means a bus to Plattsburgh, NY, followed

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by a taxi ride to the Canadian border on Interstate 87. Someone who tries to cross the
Canadian border office in Lacolle, Quebec, even someone claiming refugee status without the
necessary documents or permits, will be deported to the United States. This is because
Canada views the United States as a nation where a refugee claim is assassinated as part of a
Secure Third Country Agreement between the two nations (Konrad & Brunet-Jailly, 2019).
In 2017 there were more than 50,000 requests for asylum submitted in Canada. About
20,000 of the claims were made on or near Roxham Road in Quebec. In the majority of the
claims were made. There were only shy 22,000 claims made in Canada between January and
May. Last year, people, in particular, Haitians, started this trend, fearing that President Trump
might deport them but since that, many others have evolved, particularly Nigerians who have
seemingly come to the US to go to Roxham Road.
Canada must provide a full hearing to anyone who claims to be a refugee fleeing
persecution on Canadian soil. Canada will grant you permanent residency and potentially
citizenship if your refugee claims are approved. Furthermore, it may take years to determine
whether or not someone is a refugee. During the adjudication of their cases, the bulk of
border crossings are released to the public, they are provided with social or free medical
services and legal services (Enchautegui & Menjívar, 2015).
Argument
The Canadian immigrations is a sound and humane system, but if too many people
use it, it risks breaking down. This offers morbid stimulation as well. A refugee claim on
Canadian soil is a backdoor way for an economic migrant to spend a number, potentially
several years, legally employed in Canada. Long delays in the processing of grievances
combined with ease of accessing the asylum system.

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The immigration agreement in Canada is not yet ruptured, but shaky thanks to
Roxham Street. This spring the Quebec government, which had previously accommodated
refugees at the Montréal Olympic Stadium, said it could not support refugee applicants
anymore. Daily immigration into Canada is discreet and organized, but the Roxham Road
crossings are neither. Many Canadians like queue jumping, the phenomenon of people
appearing just at the border. The feeling is also left that the process of immigration is out of
reach. Problems like anarchy and lawlessness are more likely to annoy people in a country
that sets the universal slogan "peace, order, and good government" and which boasts that
waiting is a key Canadian virtue politically.

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References
Anderson, K. (2014). “The Cockroaches of Canada”: French-Canada, Immigration and
Nationalism, Anti-Catholicism in English-Canada, 1905-1929. Journal Of Religious
History, 39(1), 104-122.
Enchautegui, M., & Menjívar, C. (2015). Paradoxes of Family Immigration Policy:
Separation, Reorganization, and Reunification of Families under Current Immigration
Laws. Law & Policy, 37(1-2), 32-60.
Keller, T. (2019). Canada Has Its Own Ways of Keeping Out Unwanted Immigrants.
Retrieved 5 October 2019, from
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/canada-immigration-success/564944/
Konrad, V., & Brunet-Jailly, E. (2019). Approaching borders, creating borderland spaces, and
exploring the evolving borders between Canada and the United States. The Canadian
Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien, 63(1), 4-10.