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On February 3, the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security committee will hold a hearing called: “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security.” The purpose of the hearing is to ascertain what, if any, risks bringing Syrian refugees to Canada poses to the United States.
The Liberals campaigned on the promise to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by December 31, 2015, or roughly 10 weeks after winning the election on October 19, 2015. The deadline has now been extended by two months due to the inability of immigration officials to effectively process tens of thousands of refugees.
Trudeau’s plan isn’t sitting well with some U.S. lawmakers and experts who wonder if the Liberal government is downplaying the risks associated with letting in thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria.
Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said: “There is a concern with this large volume in such a short period of time that adequate vetting may not be occurring. It is an obvious concern that without robust vetting by Canada, these individuals could represent a threat to America given our porous border.”
On November 30, 2015, Johnson released a 100 page report on the state of America’s borders which concluded that a terrorist trying to cross the border into the U.S. would be able to enter the country much more easily from Canada than Mexico, and argued that Canada represents a substantial vulnerability because it provides immigrant visas to individuals who pose a significant threat.
The report also included testimony from experts who cautioned that if someone with questionable intentions gets into Canada, they will be able to enter the United States with relative ease.
Marguerite Telford from the Center for Immigration Studies (a non-profit research organization that advocates immigration reduction in the United States said: “The majority of these refugees, all receiving permanent residence, will settle in Toronto and Montreal – cities in close proximity to the U.S. border. How many will join terrorist sleeper cells, which we are told exist in all 50 states?”
The Liberals’ ability to effectively screen 25,000 refugees in a matter of weeks has also been questioned by Canadian immigration experts. Guidy Mamann, a Toronto-based Immigration lawyer who is going to testify at the hearing, warned that accepting 25,000 refugees and landing them in Canada in such a short period of time is a “very, very tall order”. According to Mamann, who has been practicing immigration law for over 30 years, “something is going to have to be missed in order to do what Trudeau said he is going to do.”
An additional concern relates to the fact that some Syrians selected for resettlement in Canada come from refugee camps in Lebanon, which Minister of Immigration John McCallum visited on December 18 in order to personally oversee the implementation of the rushed resettlement. In September, Lebanese education minister Elias Bousaab, warned the British Prime Minister David Cameron about the increasing influence of ISIS inside the Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Minister told Cameron that ISIS operates in the refugee camps radicalizing the children before trafficking them to Western countries. He estimated that that two in every 100 Syrian migrants who are resettled in the West are ISIS-radicalized persons.
In a interview with the CBC on January 8, McCallum admitted “There will be some bad apples, no doubt about it, it’s 25,000 people, but I think our past experience shows that generally speaking these newcomers have integrated themselves well, quite quickly will become
employed and productive members of Canadian society.”
in 2023
On February 3, the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security committee will hold a hearing called: “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security.” The purpose of the hearing is to ascertain what, if any, risks bringing Syrian refugees to Canada poses to the United States.
The Liberals campaigned on the promise to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by December 31, 2015, or roughly 10 weeks after winning the election on October 19, 2015. The deadline has now been extended by two months due to the inability of immigration officials to effectively process tens of thousands of refugees.
Trudeau’s plan isn’t sitting well with some U.S. lawmakers and experts who wonder if the Liberal government is downplaying the risks associated with letting in thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria.
Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said: “There is a concern with this large volume in such a short period of time that adequate vetting may not be occurring. It is an obvious concern that without robust vetting by Canada, these individuals could represent a threat to America given our porous border.”
On November 30, 2015, Johnson released a 100 page report on the state of America’s borders which concluded that a terrorist trying to cross the border into the U.S. would be able to enter the country much more easily from Canada than Mexico, and argued that Canada represents a substantial vulnerability because it provides immigrant visas to individuals who pose a significant threat.
The report also included testimony from experts who cautioned that if someone with questionable intentions gets into Canada, they will be able to enter the United States with relative ease.
Marguerite Telford from the Center for Immigration Studies (a non-profit research organization that advocates immigration reduction in the United States said: “The majority of these refugees, all receiving permanent residence, will settle in Toronto and Montreal – cities in close proximity to the U.S. border. How many will join terrorist sleeper cells, which we are told exist in all 50 states?”
The Liberals’ ability to effectively screen 25,000 refugees in a matter of weeks has also been questioned by Canadian immigration experts. Guidy Mamann, a Toronto-based Immigration lawyer who is going to testify at the hearing, warned that accepting 25,000 refugees and landing them in Canada in such a short period of time is a “very, very tall order”. According to Mamann, who has been practicing immigration law for over 30 years, “something is going to have to be missed in order to do what Trudeau said he is going to do.”
An additional concern relates to the fact that some Syrians selected for resettlement in Canada come from refugee camps in Lebanon, which Minister of Immigration John McCallum visited on December 18 in order to personally oversee the implementation of the rushed resettlement. In September, Lebanese education minister Elias Bousaab, warned the British Prime Minister David Cameron about the increasing influence of ISIS inside the Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Minister told Cameron that ISIS operates in the refugee camps radicalizing the children before trafficking them to Western countries. He estimated that that two in every 100 Syrian migrants who are resettled in the West are ISIS-radicalized persons.
In a interview with the CBC on January 8, McCallum admitted “There will be some bad apples, no doubt about it, it’s 25,000 people, but I think our past experience shows that generally speaking these newcomers have integrated themselves well, quite quickly will become
employed and productive members of Canadian society.”
in 2023
