Canada might be ‘overwhelmed’ by illegals due to Trump, professor warns
A Canadian professor warned that illegal immigration and drug smuggling might surge in Canada due to the Trump administration’s strict border enforcement.
Kelly Sundberg from Mount Royal University spoke on “60 Minutes Overtime” Sunday evening a few “tsunami” of unlawful immigrants that may be anticipated to cross via the United States into Canada out of worry of being arrested or deported.
“I hope I’m wrong, but it would appear that we’re going to be overwhelmed by the illegal immigrants fleeing American authorities coming into our country, and they very well might be bringing guns and drugs with them,” Sundberg stated.
Canadian professor Kelly Sundberg mentioned unlawful immigration on “60 Minutes Overtime.” (CBS screenshot)
Sundberg cited President Donald Trump’s transfer to ship hundreds of “criminal illegal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay as an enormous consider encouraging migration to Canada, exacerbating considerations about fentanyl trafficking.
Elsewhere throughout the phase, an nameless Mexican cartel member revealed he has seen extra migrants hoping to be smuggled via the U.S. reasonably than into the U.S. in comparison with earlier than the Trump administration.
“Most of them are Venezuelans,” the cartel member stated. “Those people are afraid of being deported to their countries. Normally before, we didn’t see that much, maybe out of every 30 people we crossed, three or four would come up. Now, maybe out of every 10 we cross, five go up to Canada.”
The Canadian border acquired extra consideration final month after a report uncovered Canadian traffickers allegedly advertising what seemed like a human-smuggling operation to sneak unlawful immigrants into the U.S. via the northern border.
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Sundberg warned a few “tsunami” of unlawful immigrants who might cross into Canada. (Photo by LARS HAGBERG/AFP by way of Getty Images)
Trump has additionally been vital of Canada’s border, accusing the nation of failing to correctly safe its border to forestall an inflow of fentanyl into the U.S. In response, he enacted 25% tariffs on Canada’s metal and aluminum and has threatened extra tariffs on all Canadian merchandise on April 2.
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In February, Trump’s first full month of his second time period, unlawful border crossings dropped to a record-setting low variety of 8,326 apprehensions of unlawful immigrants by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). This marked a 96% drop from the very best numbers reported by the Biden administration in Dec. 2023 with 301,981 encounters on the southern border.
