Indian students face exit from Canada over fake papers

More than 150 Indian students have been told to leave the country by the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), which says they arrived in the country on forged college admission letters.

The students say they were unaware of the forgeries and insist they were duped by their immigration consultation agency in India that provided them the document.

Many who received the eviction letters are now embarrassed to come forward – living in a Western country is seen as a matter of prestige by many Indian families, especially in the state of Punjab where Dimple K is from.

“My mind is dark. I cannot move forward, nor go back,” said Dimple. She has been living in Canada on a student visa since 2017.

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Canada to deport 700 Indian students as visa documents found to be fake

Chandigarh: The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) has issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were found to be fake.

Talking to indianarrative.com on phone from Toronto, Chaman Singh Batth said that after passing +2, about 700 students applied for study visa through Education Migration Services, Jalandhar headed by one Brijesh Mishra. These visa applications were filed in 2018 onwards till 2022.

What a mess. h/t DM

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Here’s the deal on Roxham Road

For years, Canada has wanted the United States to change a key border agreement in order to shut down irregular border crossings, notably Quebec’s Roxham Road, but the U.S. didn’t want to make a deal.

Now, there is something President Joe Biden wants: help in dealing with the United States’ own southern border and with migration across the hemisphere.

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‘Absolute madness’: Massive horde of migrants storm El Paso border checkpoint in brazen attempt to enter the US

A massive group of around 1,000 migrants were caught on camera attempting to rush the U.S. southern border from Mexico on Sunday afternoon.

Video captured by a Fox News reporter saw hordes of migrants rushing a border checkpoint from Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas.

Footage sees the group, which consists of mostly of young men but also includes women and young children, running along a border road as they attempted to overwhelm those at official check points as they made their way through the port of entry in El Paso in an effort to get into the United States.

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Video shows how migrants enter Canada at Roxham Road’s illegal border crossing

Every day since the beginning of the year, over 150 migrants walk or are driven up a long dirt road in upstate New York to a small ditch and a white concrete obelisk marking the border between the United States and Canada. There, on Roxham Road, they will illegally cross over the ditch into the small Quebec municipality of St-Bernard-de-Lacolle to make an asylum claim in Canada. They’re part of a growing wave of migrants from every corner of the world walking over the border at Roxham Road that began in 2017, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

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Why illegal alien benefit shoppers are using unofficial U.S. border crossings to sneak into Canada

CHAMPLAIN, New York and WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Bookseller Zulema Diaz fled her native Peru after being kidnapped, beaten and robbed, hoping to find safety in the United States. Instead, she said she experienced homelessness and sexual harassment as she worked off-the-books on a hospital cleaning crew.

So when Diaz, 46, heard New York City was distributing free bus tickets, she said she hopped on a bus for Plattsburgh, a town close to the Canadian border, then took a taxi to the irregular crossing at Roxham Road to enter Canada and file an asylum claim.

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What if Joe Biden doesn’t want to close Roxham Road? Canada needs a Plan B

The federal government has two possible paths out of the dead end at Roxham Road. The first route goes through Washington, D.C. – and is largely out of Ottawa’s hands. The second goes through Ottawa – and is entirely within Canada’s control. The best option? Pursuing both paths, simultaneously.

Taking the road through Washington means amending the 2002 Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), which currently only covers official border crossings, so it applies to the entire Canada-U.S. border. That could be as simple as adding a few words to the existing accord. But that can only happen if the Americans agree, and despite years of quiet diplomacy, they have yet to do so. Unless Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can persuade President Joe Biden to do Canada a favour, then Plan B – the road through Ottawa – may be the only open road.

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This is life on Roxham Road, where illegal border crossers and frustrations abound

ST-BERNARD-DE-LACOLLE, Que. — The citizens and mayor of St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, a small Quebec municipality that straddles the U.S. border and is home to the now famous irregular Roxham Road border crossing, often find themselves torn between feelings of empathy and frustration.

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Brian Giesbrecht: Most Canadians Don’t Think Canada Is a ‘Post-National State’

When newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a bewildered Canada in 2015 that Canada was a “post-national state” not many of us knew what he was talking about.

Doesn’t “post-national” mean that Canada was once a nation, but no longer is one? Was he really saying that Canada was no longer a nation—that it had somehow graduated from nation status to some higher stage?

He didn’t explain, but perhaps what is happening now at Roxham Road can be at least partly explained by Trudeau’s unusual conception of what the country he is governing is all about.

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What’s a ‘southbounder’? And what are they doing in the woods near the Canada-U.S. border?

 

MONTREAL—The RCMP calls them “southbounders.”

They follow a perilous route that leads most often from Central America to Canada and then across the border to the United States.

According to officials on both sides of the border, there has been a sharp and inexplicable surge in the number of people making the dangerous journey in recent months, trekking through snow-covered woods, often under the cover of night and in sub-zero temperatures, sometimes with young children in tow.


The Star keeps pushing that open borders madness. Have they no concern for Canadians being squeezed out of housing?  Denied ready access to medical care?

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Trudeau has degraded the value of Canadian citizenship

The 2015 federal election, which saw the Stephen Harper-led Conservatives fall to defeat after nearly a decade in power, is still known in some circles as “the niqab election.” It was, after all, the Harper government’s protracted legal battle to prevent Muslim women from wearing niqabs at citizenship ceremonies that effectively framed the race.

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Canada should increase productivity, not supercharge immigration

When future historians look back on the decade of the 2020s, they’ll likely be struck by two global demographic trends: 1) Aging populations across most of the world and 2) Populations that are now in outright decline in a large group of countries. The two trends are related. In North America, Europe and parts of Asia, an increasing share of the population is moving into retirement, meaning death rates will climb as more people enter their twilight years. Coupled with generally low birth rates, rapid aging is setting the stage for dwindling populations in many jurisdictions.

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