My favourite part of this fiasco is how the "refugees" wrote a ltter saying that they will abide by the laws of Canada if allowed to stay... this, after breaking the laws of Canada to pay human smugglers to get themselves here. Sorry, but no....
While it's true that way more people arrive in Canada by plane and seek refugee status than the 490 that arrived on this boat, the real issue here is organized human smuggling which is illegal and immoral. Not only could it be a vector for letting in terrorists and criminals, but these human smuggling rings are often controlled by gangsters and the people they smuggle are often subject to future extortion once they are in Canada. Many times, they are forced to sell and smuggle drugs to pay back their debt to the people who brought them over.
Go to downtown Vancouver for example and find out who the cocaine and heroin dealers are. Most of them are immigrants or refugees from SE Asia or Honduras. It's nearly impossible to "weed them" when they arrive because many arrive with the best of intentions but have to pay off their "debt" to the gangsters.
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