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We are not an inherently racist people.

But Liberals and other “progressives” are incapable of understanding the distinction between support for legal immigration and opposition to the illegal kind.

Increasingly, our federal Liberal government and its media supporters see any opposition whatsoever to an open-door immigration policy — legal and illegal, alike — as proof of rising “populist” (read “racist”) sentiment.

When announcing the government’s increase in immigrant quotas on Wednesday, Minister Hussen said he would also launch a propaganda campaign on the benefits of immigration to counter “anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric” that he sees as all around us.

This is an excellent example of the jumble that goes on in the minds of “progressives” whenever an issue veers close to the subject of race, as the issue of immigration does. “Progressives” become so afraid of being called racist that they lose their ability to reason.

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The people illegally crossing the Quebec border are neither refugees nor legal immigrants. They are, by definition, illegal immigrants.

They are mostly coming from the United States. And while liberals may see the prospect of living in Donald Trump’s America as a threat to life and limb, the U.S. is a safe country. So, since these migrants’ lives and liberty are not threatened, they are not refugees.

Some of the illegals may be at risk of being sent back to Haiti but even then, as unpleasant as that may be, they are not refugees.