Quebec Immigration Minister: The number of asylum seekers entering Quebec is still more than the capacity of the province

According to the Montreal Gazette, Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Frecht yesterday called the number of asylum seekers entering Quebec abnormal and said she expects the federal government to do more to distribute potential refugees across the country.

He criticized the federal government’s way of granting travel visas, which causes many asylum seekers to apply for asylum through Quebec. Since the closure of the illegal Roxam border crossing between Quebec and New York, asylum seekers have entered and applied mostly through the province’s airports. They give asylum. According to the statistics of the federal government, 17,800 people applied for asylum at Quebec airports between January and September of this year. This number is more than double the number of asylum seekers who applied in the country’s second largest province, Ontario. The number of asylum seekers from Quebec this year was more than the total number of asylum seekers from all other provinces last year.

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