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In 2013, city council designated Toronto as a “sanctuary city,” committing to provide social services to people regardless of immigration status, incentivizing illegal immigration to the city.

Last week, the provincial NDP made the feel-good proclamation that, if elected, they would extend this policy provincially.

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While at university, I spent a year working for a solo practice law firm that specialized in refugee cases. I barely made minimum wage but for a progressive-minded college student, it was a dream job.

Working at a small firm, where I was one of only four employees, afforded the opportunity to interact with clients that would not have been available at a larger practice.

I still remember the haunted look on the face of a Bangladeshi man as he described watching his brother executed by a paramilitary death squad.

I remember a Salvadoran farmer, beaten nearly to death while his farm burnt to the ground for participating in an uprising against MS-13 extortion.