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On Monday, a man was arrested by First Nations police in rural Manitoba after illegally crossing into Canada via the U.S. border. As has become the norm, there was barely any news coverage. Much of the media didn’t bat an eye.

Over the last three-and-a-half years, tens of thousands of people have illegally walked across the border in between official ports of entry — of those, 58,054 have been arrested and detained by the RCMP.

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Since 2016, Justin Trudeau’s first full year in office, 156,155 people have arrived in Canada under false pretenses — walking in illegally, using fake documents or pretending to be tourists — only to make asylum claims in the hopes of becoming refugees in Canada. This is according to data from the Government of Canada on asylum claims from January 2016 to June 2019.

This staggering figure is in addition to Canada’s planned annual intake of immigrants and refugees, people who apply in advance, wait in a queue and come to Canada through official immigration channels.