Parti Quebecois (PQ) Leader wants to build a fence – and have Mexicans pay for it

 


QUEBEC. Parti Quebecois (PQ) Leader Jean-François Lisée said he wants a fence built in Hemmingford, Quebec on the New York border crossing that is popular with asylum seekers. Lisee said the fence should go up at Roxham Road in Hemmingford, near the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing. According the Canadian media, Lisée told reporters in Quebec City on Wednesday that Canada should rip up the safe third-party agreement and asylum seekers should be directed to legal border crossings.

Reminded he had at one point used the word ‘’fence,” and when asked who would pay for the fence, Lisee joked, “the Mexicans.” He later said that the barrier he was proposing would not be a Trump-like wall, it could be just a cedar hedge.

“We cannot close Roxham Road unless and until [asylum seekers] have the ability to come through the regular postings. That’s what we’ve been asking for a year.

Quebec Immigration Minister David Heurtel said earlier this month the number of asylum seekers entering the province from the United States had tripled to 6,074 this year from about 2,000 during the same period in 2017.

Heurtel said the number is expected to increase significantly this summer. However, he clarified the PQ leader’s idea of a fence at the border as “simplistic” and “off-the-cuff.”

“The federal government, since last Wednesday, announced steps in the right direction… There needs to be more work done, concrete solutions now, but going back to Mr. Lisee’s comments, it’s very simplistic, and you don’t solve complex problems by building walls,” Heurtel said.

 

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