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Canada's immigration minister has said "not everyone is welcome" in the country as officials brace for an increase of migrants when Donald Trump returns to the White House with a pledge to carry out mass deportations. The minister's warning, seven years after Justin Trudeau promised that "Canadians will welcome" asylum seekers, reflects a stark shift in tone amid waning support for immigration and refugee resettlement in the country, according to migration experts. Trump has pledged to enact the country's largest mass deportation when he takes office in January.
The senior official helping to oversee the policy, Tom Homan, said Monday the incoming administration will target those living illegally in the US who they consider a public safety threat. But the effect of these policies is widely expected to prompt many people in the US without documentation to flee north and cross unpatrolled areas of the 5,500-mile border. Speaking to the Globe and Mail, immigration minister Marc Miller said his government would "always be acting in the national interest .
.. to make sure that our borders are secure, that people that are coming to Canada do so in a regular pathway, and the reality that not everyone is welcome here".
During Trump's first term in office, tens of thousands of Haitians fled to Canada after the president ended temporary protected status for the group. At the time, Trudeau posted on social media: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome..
. Leyland Cecco.
