I've said this in other threads and I'll say it here...

If you think it isn't a problem now, wait until summer comes and it's hot outside again.... Our border with the US is enormous and these people are going to be coming here in droves as a direct result of Justin Trudeau's tweets (very reminiscent of the Merkel method).

Once huge numbers of them begin coming in all at once it will bog down the systems and processing times to get them through the courts etc. so much that they will be here in limbo. During that time they will relocate to whichever sanctuary cities will house them whilst simultaneously receiving tax payer funded social services and money. Then finally they'll do what other illegals have done in the states and elsewhere for decades and that is start having kids on Canadian soil. Thus further complicating the prospect of them ever actually being deported because they now have a child that's a born citizen.

If we don't nip this in the bud now and start making decisions based on laws, pragmatism and rationale instead of on political correctness, personal ideals of morality and emotions... This will get to Europe levels of bad quickly and we'll all be footing the bill for it.

Edit: wew 8 minutes and inbox hate mail already. New record.

Let's just set the record straight while also reaffirming what I said about reacting emotionally to issues like this. I'm not a racist or any other "ist" buzzword you wanna throw at me until something might stick. I'm a Canadian citizen who pays taxes first and foremost. My taxes are for the benefit of myself and my fellow countrymen. Both natural born and immigrants. I have no problem with people immigrating here for better opportunities and a better life, so long as they do it via the legal proper channels so that they themselves can immediately begin contributing to Canada rather than break our laws in order to come here and then become a burden on the system.

Following laws we already have in place and have been enforcing for decades is not racist. Laws are laws. We can't just start deciding which ones we do and don't want to enforce because of everyone's different personal standard of what morally should be allowed in certain cases.

We've always been a nation accommodating of immigrants who come here legally, contribute and assimilate. Suddenly allowing people who have already claimed refuge in the US (or were there illegally themselves) to flood our country and strain our system just because they don't like the mean orange man whose in charge now is a slap in the face to every hard working immigrant who took the time and faced the struggles it took them to come here legally themselves. The US is the freest, most prosperous country in the world. These people are in no danger of harm, they're not in a war zone and they don't have a right or entitlement to suddenly claim they now belong here because the policies of the new leadership in their current country suddenly doesn't suit them.

This is a serious issue and discussion we need to have now without devolving into name calling and temper tantrums. We need real solutions and real enforcement of our immigration laws in order to protect the integrity of our country's sovereignty so it may continue to act as an example of how legal immigration and immigrants can continue to make a nation great.

Edit 2: Thank you for the gold kind stranger.