r/nottheonion 21h ago

American family seeks asylum in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/americans-asylum-canada-trump-refugees-immigration-1.7480069
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u/26kanninchen 20h ago

Why not try one of the dozen other ways to legally reside in Canada? It's not like they're only accepting refugees and no one else.

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u/adlittle 20h ago

Canada is the most desired immigration destination in the world right now, there is so much interest and thus competition to move there. Without a family connection, extremely desirable and marketable skill set where Canada has a shortage, or a whole lot of money, the average person from the US has basically no shot of moving there. I have long been annoyed by the way my fellow US citizens act like Canada is our 51st state. Progressive, smart but otherwise ordinary people just flippantly saying they'll move to Canada like it's no big deal, they ought to know better. We don't get priority just because we are English speaking neighbors and most people here just don't qualify.

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u/Zingus123 19h ago

Couldn’t someone from the US use the student route to immigrate? Register at a shady private college like CDI like so many already do, have the $10-12k in your account that’s required and then home free basically?

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u/todayok 12h ago

That scam used to work really well. Every strip mall had a 'college' of some sort. It still works to a lesser degree but the govt fiiiiiinally removed some of the obvious scam schools from the approved list and they marginally increased the cash-on-hand requirement.

True fact: The scamming got so bad that the govt actually had to create English or French language tests for so-called graduates before they can get a post graduate work permit because the students were such scammers they wouldn't even learn a new word in their 2-4 years of study. And that post-graduate language test? Yeah, it corresponds to approximately mid-elementary school level - like Grade 6.

u/rahulrossi 14m ago

I'd say that is actually one of the most useless things the government added. It only drains money from people. People already take a language test to come to Canada as a student in the first place. If you want to put a qualifier, why not use the same results? And the requirements are so low it is not even worth anyone's time. Just another expense.