{"id":25578,"date":"2024-02-29T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambassadornews.org\/?p=25578"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:00:31","slug":"canada-bringing-back-visa-requirements-for-mexican-nationals-to-curb-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambassadornews.org\/en\/canada-bringing-back-visa-requirements-for-mexican-nationals-to-curb-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada bringing back visa requirements for Mexican nationals to curb asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Quebec, U.S. governments have been calling for visas to be reinstated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The federal government is reimposing some visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada, a senior government source tells Radio-Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The new rules will take effect on 11:30 p.m. ET on Thursday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Quebec Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault has been calling on the federal government to do more to slow the influx of asylum seekers into his province. Last week, he said Ottawa should bring back\u00a0the visa requirement\u00a0for Mexican travellers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>The possibility of entering Canada from Mexico without a visa certainly explains part of the influx of asylum seekers<\/q>\u00a0the premier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/legault-asks-trudeau-to-slow-influx-of-asylum-seekers-1.7087328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">More than 25,000 Mexicans applied for asylum in Canada last year, making Mexico the top source of asylum claims,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irb-cisr.gc.ca\/en\/statistics\/protection\/Pages\/RPDStat2023.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to statistics from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada<\/a>. The number of backlogged claims from Mexico currently filed with the board sits at more than 28,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The U.S. government also has been asking Ottawa to bring back the visa requirement to curb a sharp increase in illegal crossings from Canada into the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Mexicans currently don&#8217;t need a visa to travel to Canada, but they do have to obtain visas to enter the U.S.\u00a0American border officials say some Mexican nationals are using Canada&#8217;s visa-free rule to fly into the country and then cross illegally into the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The new visa requirement is expected to affect roughly 40 per cent of all Mexican travellers to Canada, a government source told Radio-Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The Conservative government of Prime Minister\u00a0Stephen Harper imposed a visa requirement on Mexico\u00a0in 2009 to stem the flow of asylum claims. The Trudeau government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-pena-nieto-bilateral-visas-beef-1.3655746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relaxed it in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The new rules won&#8217;t amount to a complete return to the pre-2016 rules. Mexican nationals with certain types of U.S. visas and those coming to Canada on study or work permits\u00a0won&#8217;t have to obtain Canadian visas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Mexican nationals who received valid visas under the previous system at any point within the last ten years won&#8217;t have to reapply under the new requirements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The new visas will apply for a ten-year period and will allow a traveller to enter Canada multiple times and stay for up to six months at a time. Customs officers will have discretionary power to limit the duration of the visa or the number of visits, the source said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The government isn&#8217;t expected to announce the new visa requirements until Thursday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">But on Wednesday, Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador accused Canada of attempting to act unilaterally on immigration measures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>They are in negotiations to reach an agreement so that we can control migratory flows from Canada<\/q>\u00a0he said in Spanish during a press conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>We have acted generously with them, with the government of Prime Minister Trudeau, but they were already on the verge of applying unilateral measures<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">L\u00f3pez Obrador also said he may not attend the next North American Leaders summit \u2014 set to take place in Canada \u2014 if he feels Canada and the U.S. aren&#8217;t treating his country fairly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>If there&#8217;s no respectful treatment, I won&#8217;t go<\/q>\u00a0he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Legault has said asylum seekers are putting heavy pressure on Quebec&#8217;s social services and finances<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>Asylum seekers have trouble finding a place to live, which contributes to accentuating the housing crisis<\/q>\u00a0the premier said in his letter to Trudeau<q>Many end up in homeless shelters, which are overflowing<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">He said organizations that help asylum seekers can&#8217;t keep up with the demand. Legault said the children of asylum seekers are also straining the resources of schools already facing shortages of teachers and space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Legault&#8217;s letter said asylum seekers who are waiting for work permits receive financial assistance from Quebec. Last October, he said, roughly 43,200 asylum seekers received $33 million in aid from the province<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Fr\u00e9chette welcomed the news but said Ottawa must still do more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>It&#8217;s an important step forward, but it won&#8217;t solve everything. The number of asylum seekers accepted by Quebec is far too high and our services are beyond capacity<\/q>\u00a0she told reporters Thursday in French<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><q>The federal government must distribute the asylum seekers across Canada. Quebec bears a disproportionate share of the responsibility for receiving them<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">U.S. officials\u00a0have suggested that people who can&#8217;t get into the U.S. lawfully have an incentive to travel to Canada to try entering illegally.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/newsinteractives\/features\/canadian-border-smuggling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Human smuggling networks are cashing in<\/a>, moving people who are fleeing poverty and violence in Mexico\u00a0and using Canada as a pitstop\u00a0on the way to the U.S<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows a spike in migrants entering the U.S. from Canada after Trudeau lifted the visa requirement in December 2016. There were 1,169 apprehensions of Mexicans the year before the requirements were lifted; the number nearly doubled to 2,245 in 2018, a year after the requirements were lifted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Last year, the CBP recorded 4,868 apprehensions. Nearly 2,000 Mexicans have been apprehended at the Canada-U.S. border in the first four months of this fiscal year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Those numbers are a tiny fraction of the number of apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border \u2014 nearly 580,000 last year. 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