7,612 people crossed illegally into Canada during the first four months of the year
Eric, an asylum seeker from southern Nigeria, crossed illegally into Quebec last February from the United States after leaving Africa to escape the threat of armed herdsmen. He says the herdsmen from the north of the country threaten southern farmers and sometimes murder them.
"A lot of killing has been going on," he told The Canadian Press during a break from French-language classes he is taking in Montreal.
Eric is one of 7,612 people who crossed illegally into the country during the first four months of the year, with 96 per cent of them entering Quebec, primarily through Roxham Road, Champlain, NY, a paved clearing at the forested border.
In 2017, thousands of Haitians fled the United States for Montreal ... Both of the major opposition parties -- the Parti Quebecois and the Coalition Avenir Quebec -- argue the governing Liberals have failed to properly integrate newcomers by, among other things, not ensuring they learn French. The Coalition wants to decrease immigration to the province by 10,000 people a year while the PQ has called for a full review of Quebec's immigration policies.
Opposition parties speak of high unemployment rates among immigrants and cite statistics that indicate only a third of newcomers register for free French courses and a third of those abandon their studies or just never show up.
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