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What’s also reckless is that Canada is not exercising its right to deport those who come in illegally from the U.S. After the September 11 attacks, Ottawa signed the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. This means that any non-American seeking refugee protection at Canada’s border must have first filed a refugee claim with the U.S.

The loophole migrant smugglers are using is that the Agreement only refers to those making claims at a “port of entry” and not to those who sneak in illegally. So, they slip in at insecure spots along the border.

But as Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel has pointed out, the entire Canadian border should simply be declared a “port of entry.” End of problem.

There is also a national security angle to all this incompetence: Unlike Syrian and other refugees Canada has brought in, these illegal migrants are not screened.

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The initial wave consisted of mostly Haitians fearing deportation from the U.S. after Trump announced the end of temporary amnesty for them. More recently, border-crossers are Nigerian, having just arrived on a tourist visa to the U.S., with the sole purpose of slipping into Canada.

“They land in the United States, where they stay for a very short period of time, and then make their way to Canada,” Hursh Jaswal, communications director for Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, told the Canadian Press.

Other claimants are from India, Turkey, Mexico, Colombia and Somalia.

Trudeau dithers instead of solving his self-created migrant crisis, and has had to allocate an additional $173 million to process illegal crossings. That figure doesn’t account for the benefits these people get for free.

The Prime Minister must arrest this and can do so by simply reaffirming all Canada’s borders as ports of entry and then deport all who have arrived illegally back to the United States where they came from.

Border control is what a leader is responsible for, not out-tweeting the leader next door.