Riehl World View posts that Canada has been deporting illegal aliens with just a few days notice. And, yet I’ve not read anything about this in the media. No calls that Canada is being racist, that the Canadian government are a bunch of extremists, absolutely zilch.
Alves and Belchior are among a large group of illegal immigrants deported on Sunday afternoon.
Many were given only a few days notice to make preparations, pack their bags, and get rid of possessions they can’t take on the flight to Lisbon.
“It’s not fair,” family friend Carla Dos Reis said, her voice trembling. “(They) didn’t give her enough time to sell anything. She had to put everything in my house.”
A large number of the group being deported came to Canada over the last several years to meet the demands of a booming construction industry, particularly in Toronto.
Industry estimates say approximately 75 per cent of the workers are in this country illegally.
“If you have bought a new home or a new condo, you know that the waiting times getting a place just keep on getting longer and longer,” Pedro Barata of the Portuguese National Congress said Sunday.
“I think that the more we deport people who are needed in the construction industry, the longer those waits are going to be.”
Some estimates hold that 15,000 people are working illegally in southern Ontario’s construction and hospitality industries, and the Canada-wide figure is 300,000.
Unlike the US, the Canadians are not inclined to provide amnesty for people who violated Canadian law.
Immigration Canada said there will not be an amnesty. The federal agency said they have a legal duty to remove people who have come to this country without following the proper procedures.
Some say they’ll try to immigrate back to Canada, but without bypassing the legal channels.
Many in the group deported Sunday say they will try to return to Canada and resume the lives they have built.
“Shame on the Canadian government for deporting people who are working hard. We need those people here,” Barata said.
“We have an obligation to the hundreds of thousands of people who play by the rules,” Immigration and Citizenship Minister Monte Solberg said Sunday on CTV’s Question Period.
I think more than a few days notice would make the whole thing more humane. And, I’m not suggesting that we deport 11 million illegal aliens from the US. But, I think that Canada, with far fewer illegal aliens than we have here, can do it and probably should do it. Then, they should facilitate a relatively quick way for those people to legally immigrate back to Canada. That way, it becomes clear that you can’t just illegally enter Canada and get away with it.
