The Media Claims A ‘Record Number’ Of Americans Are Fleeing To Canada, But Is That Really True?

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The Guardian claims Americans are moving to Canada in record numbers, but it seems they’re counting a lot of non-Americans in that number — non-Americans that Canada doesn’t really want.

“In 2017, some 2,550 U.S. citizens applied for asylum in Canada – an increase of more than sixfold from 2016 and the largest such number since at least 1994, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada,” the left-leaning British paper reported Wednesday

Instead, they’re the minor, American-born children of non-citizens — often illegal immigrants — whose parents might find themselves on the wrong side of the Trump administration’s stricter immigration policies. The parents use the children as a way of obtaining asylum north of the border, even though neither they nor their kids are likely entitled to it.

“Most of the Americans applying for refugee status are the children of non-residents,” an immigration lawyer told the Guardian. “They are US citizens because they were born there, but they come across the border with their parents because they don’t want to be separated.”- READ MORE

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