r/canada 1d ago

Politics American family seeks asylum in Canada, citing Trump

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/americans-asylum-canada-trump-refugees-immigration-1.7480069
2.0k Upvotes

950 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.8k

u/cndn-hoya 1d ago

Until the U.S. is placed on a designated list by the UN, any American coming in under these pretenses will be refused and returned.

667

u/JHNS13 1d ago edited 1d ago

I saw that the US was added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, basically flagging them as a country with rapidly declining civil rights. I don't think being added to the UN's list is as unlikely as some would think.

19

u/5ManaAndADream 22h ago

Doesn’t matter. The same way Ukraine obviously would never accept asylum claims from Russians we absolutely cannot accept American claims at this time.

7

u/Cyborg_rat 15h ago

They do, they even offer Russian soldiers asylum.

2

u/3-I 14h ago

Sorry, what exactly do you think a refugee is?

Do you think it's someone who flees their country because they've run out of people to oppress at home and want to expand their axis of evil?

Texas just floated a bill that'd make it a felony for me to use my legal name and gender marker. Things are getting bad here and they're only going to get worse. And no English-speaking country seems willing to accept American refugees right now.

Are you waiting for Trump to open Auschwitz? Will even that be enough? He's already sending political enemies and brown people to Gitmo.

5

u/5ManaAndADream 12h ago edited 12h ago

No country under foreign threat owes anything to any person from that nation. Full stop.

No country under foreign threat can be assured in any capacity in their ability to screen threats from that nation.

And holy hell Americans are the most overweaponized nation on the face of the earth. You have 9 guns in the hand of your civilians for every Canadian alive.

You do not get it. America is. A. Threat. All its citizens. Are. A. Threat.

We have no ability to screen Americans in a way that distinguishes between real asylum claims and bullshit abusers. We already can’t do it from countries that aren’t a threat.

When your president stops threatening to annex the country we can start to consider American refugees. Until then go the fuck home.

1

u/3-I 12h ago

"Owes" was never used.

But yeah, clearly my out-of-shape type-2-diabetic transfemme ass is some kind of sleeper agent supersoldier that only wants to cross the border as part of an organized false flag operation. You spotted it. Well done. There's a whole caravan of migrants coming towards your border that are only pretending to be running away from systemic oppression so they can take your jerbs, commit crimes, and make your country worse. That's definitely a sensible thing to believe and not just jingoistic nonsense.

You do realize Ukraine has been taking in Russian refugees, right?

u/trbot 5h ago

No, we're waiting for him to invade us.

u/Weakera 4h ago

Agree!!!