Stephen Harper pulls a Southpark: blame Canada.
That’s his reasoning to Mexico’s president for why it is Mexican visitors require visas when crossing the border. The requirement was introduced in early July in response to a sharp increase in bogus refugee claims from both Mexico and the Czech Republic.
You don’t need to look all that far to see why it is he can blame Canada’s immigration policies for the current situation–Mexico and the Czech Republic are supposed to be allies, as well as supposed to be legitimatly democratic countries. So there shouldn’t be refugee claims coming from those particular countries. Applications for refugee status are, or were pre-visas, getting to the point where legitimate refugees escaping legitimate crises ended up waiting significantly longer for their hearings than they should have been.
Canada is far too soft on immigration in a lot of cases–and this would be one of them. Now, though, that the hopefully temporary visa requirement is in place and claims have been appropriately decreased, here’s hoping Stephen Harper can actually push through some much needed reforms in that area. His press team will appreciate it.
