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According to security and police experts, Canada provides haven to about 50 terrorist groups. The preferred method of entry is simple: flush identification papers down the plane’s toilet (so your story can’t be traced), claim refugee status at Canada customs, pitch a practiced story, and walk out a free terrorist, eligible for paraphernalia of welfare, social and medical benefits unrivalled by any other nation.
On a per capita basis, Canada accepts six times as many refugees as the United States and four times the average among members of the Convention on Refugees. This is because Canada’s open welfare system attracts more applicants and because of Canada’s high acceptance rate (46 per cent). The United States accepts 21 per cent. Other large refugee-accepting nations receive an average of 15 per cent. This is not because other nations are turning away legitimate refugees but because Canada’s system can’t distinguish between legitimate refugees and fraud.
In any event, no hardly means no. Refugee appeals take years, costing taxpayers much treasure in welfare and legal bills. Mohammed Issa Mohammed cost Canadian taxpayers $3 million in legal costs alone. He entered Canada on a visa and was ordered deported after being identified as a terrorist. He claimed refugee status and launched 40 appeals over 15 years, while being supported, with his family, by welfare and other social payments.
Consider Ahmed Ressam. He claimed refugee status in Canada in 1994, failed to show up for his hearing, and thus was ordered deported. He remained in Canada, acquired a criminal record, associated with terrorists, visited Afghanistan for training, returned to Canada, fraudulently acquired a Canadian passport, and began assembling explosives. A wary US customs agent arrested him trying to enter the United States in 1999 with a carload of explosives bound for the Los Angeles airport.
Ressam is hardly unique. Citizenship Canada can’t find 27,000 fake refugees who have been ordered deported.
