A Canadian professor warned that illegal immigration And drug smuggling could increase in Canada thanks to the strict border enforcement of the Trump government.
Kelly Sundberg of Mount Royal University spoke on Sunday evening on “60 minutes of overtime” about a “tsunami” of illegal immigrants who can be expected to cross the United States to Canada for fear arrested or deported.
“I hope I am wrong, but it seems that we will be overwhelmed by the illegal immigrants who flee the American authorities who enter our country, and they can take weapons and drugs with them,” Sundberg said.
The Canadian professor Kelly Sundberg discussed illegal immigration on “60 minutes of overtime”. (CBS -creenshot)
Sundberg cited president Donald TrumpThe move to send thousands of “criminal illegal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay as a huge factor in encouraging migration to Canada, making the concern about fentanyl trade worse.
Elsewhere during the segment, an anonymous Mexican cartel member revealed that he saw more migrants who hope to be smuggled by the US instead of in the US compared to for the Trump government.
“Most of them are Venezuelans,” said the cartel member. “Those people are afraid to be deported to their country. Normally we have not seen that much, maybe every 30 people we crossed, three or four would come up. Now, perhaps every 10 we cross, five are going to Canada.”
The Canadian border received more attention last month after a report had discovered Canadian human dealers are said to advertise What looked like a human smuggling operation to sneak illegal immigrants through the northern border to the US.
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Sundberg warned of a “tsunami” of illegal immigrants who could cross Canada. (Photo by Lars Hagberg/AFP via Getty images)
Trump has also been critical about the border of Canada, and accused the country of not securing its border to prevent an influx of Fentanyl into the US, in response, He performed 25% rates On Steel and Aluminum from Canada and on 2 April, extra rates for all Canadian products threatened.
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In February, Trump’s first full month of his second term, illegal border crossings Leaving to a record setting low Number of 8,326 fear of illegal immigrants by American customs and border patrol (CBP). This meant a decrease of 96% compared to the highest numbers reported by the Biden administration in December 2023 with 301,981 meetings on the southern border.
