加拿大 非法越境者 每天可獲得224加元的食宿費用

一些非法越境者在等待處理期間，每天可獲得224加元的食宿費用。

May 13, 2024, Some illegal border crossers receive $224 in food and accommodation per day while awaiting processing

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/some-illegal-border-crossers-receive-224-in-food-accommodation-per-day

截至2023年底，加拿大移民、難民及公民部記錄了42,387名非法越境者正在等待審理的難民申請。

Tristin Hopper  May 13, 2024

隨著加拿大難民申請人數創下新高，一位保守黨議員透露，渥太華每天的預算約為224加元，用於為一些非法入境後申請庇護的外國人提供食宿。

上周，保守黨議員莉安·魯德（Lianne Rood）在社交媒體上上傳了一份文件，其中展示了政府對她提出的關於向已在加拿大申請庇護但尚未獲得移民局審核的外國人提供哪些“商品和服務”的問題的答複。

平均住宿費用為“每間房每晚140加元”，平均餐費為“每位申請人每天84加元”，總計每位申請人每天224加元。

如果算上其他免費提供給申請人的“必需品”，包括“洗漱用品、藥品、尿布”，每日津貼可能還會更高。

“無論申請人如何進入加拿大，入住IRCC運營酒店的申請人，一旦被安置，都會獲得住宿和餐飲，”這份由多元化與包容性部長議會秘書保羅·蔣（Paul Chiang）簽署的官方答複中寫道。

“新民主黨-自由黨政府給予非法越境者的福利是其為幫助加拿大老年人提供的福利的十倍！可恥！”魯德在5月7日X上傳該文件的帖子的配文中寫道。

根據IRCC的最新數據，該機構正在處理156,032份庇護申請——盡管並非所有申請者都在加拿大境內，並居住在IRCC的酒店內。

由於大量尋求庇護者湧入市政運營的庇護所，特魯多政府最近啟動了“臨時住房援助計劃”，旨在“為那些原本無處棲身的申請者提供有限的臨時住所”。

去年11月，該計劃在加拿大各地運營了3,800個房間，收容了約7,000名申請者，每年總成本為5.57億加元。

魯德的問題是關於聯邦政府稱之為“非法越境者”的特定類別的庇護尋求者。這些人是在非法入境加拿大後提出國內庇護申請的。按照IRCC的官方說法，非法越境者是在“官方入境口岸之間”進入加拿大的。

而這類申請的待審數量達到了曆史最高水平。截至2023年底，IRCC記錄了42,387份非法越境者提出的難民申請。

僅在2023年的最後三個月，就有2,145人在非法入境後在加拿大提出了庇護申請——平均每小時就有一人。

在同一三個月內，當局隻處理了4,139個案件，而之前排隊等候的案件有44,000個；其中3,188個案件被接受為正式難民，其餘951個案件要麽被拒絕、撤回，要麽被放棄。

盡管特魯多政府於2023年3月關閉了臭名昭著的羅克瑟姆路（Roxham Road）過境點，但非法入境人數依然居高不下。

六年來，魁北克省的這片鄉村地區一直是十多萬非法越境者的通道。在南邊，美國巴士公司為尋求進入加拿大並申請庇護的外國人提供專線服務。在北邊，加拿大皇家騎警花費數百萬美元建造了半永久性設施來處理湧入的非法移民。

盡管加拿大本可以隨時單方麵關閉羅克瑟姆路過境點（就像在新冠疫情期間關閉了幾個月一樣），但特魯多政府一直等到美國批準對《安全第三國協議》進行小幅修改後，才開始拒絕非法越境者。

無論如何，在羅克瑟姆路關閉後的三個月內，有8131名非法越境者進入加拿大——這一比例幾乎高於該過境點開放六年來的任何時期。

自 2017 年初聯邦政府開始密切關注非法越境者以來，已有 39,643 人獲得正式難民批準，而 22,611 人被拒絕——大約每兩名獲得 IRCC 批準的難民申請者中，就有一人被拒絕。

Some illegal border crossers receive $224 in food and accommodation per day while awaiting processing

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/some-illegal-border-crossers-receive-224-in-food-accommodation-per-day

At the end of 2023, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada recorded 42,387 pending refugee claims by irregular border crossers

By Tristin Hopper May 13, 2024 520 Comments

As the number of Canada’s refugee claimants hits new highs, a Conservative MP has revealed that Ottawa budgets about $224 per day to feed and house some foreigners who claim asylum after illegally entering the country.

Last week, Conservative MP Lianne Rood uploaded documents to social media showing the government’s answer to her question about what “goods and services” are provided to foreigners who have claimed asylum in Canada — but have not yet had their applications reviewed by immigration authorities.

The average accommodation cost is “$140 per night per room,” and the average cost for meals is “$84 per day per claimant” — for a total of $224 per claimant, per day.

And the per diem cost may go even higher once factoring in the other “essential items” provided for free to claimants, including “toiletries, medicines, diapers.”

“Claimants in IRCC operated hotels, regardless of how they entered Canada, are provided with accommodations and meals once they are relocated,” read the official answer to Rood, signed by Paul Chiang, parliamentary secretary to the minister of diversity and inclusion.

“The NDP-Liberal government is giving TEN TIMES the benefits to illegal border jumpers than it is giving to help Canadian seniors! DISGRACEFUL!” wrote Rood in an accompanying caption to a May 7 post on X uploading the document.

As of the most recent figures by the IRCC, there are 156,032 pending asylum claims before the agency — although not all of them are in Canada and living within an IRCC hotel.

With many asylum seekers overwhelming municipally run shelters, the Trudeau government recently began the Interim Housing Assistance Program to “provide limited temporary accommodations for claimants who otherwise would not have a place to shelter.”

In November the program operated 3,800 rooms across Canada, housing approximately 7,000 claimants at a total annual cost of $557 million.

Rood’s question had been in regards to a specific category of asylum seeker referred to in federal circles as “irregular border crossers.” This is someone who entered Canada illegally before making an inland asylum claim. In official IRCC parlance, an irregular border crosser entered Canada “between official ports of entry.”

And in that category, pending claims are at historic highs. At the end of 2023, the IRCC recorded 42,387 pending refugee claims by irregular border crossers.

In just the last three months of 2023, 2,145 people made an asylum claim in Canada after illegally entering the country — an average of one every hour.

In that same three-month period, authorities would only process 4,139 cases out of a pre-existing queue of 44,000; 3,188 of which were accepted as official refugees, with the other 951 either rejected, withdrawn or abandoned.

The intake has stayed high despite the fact that the Trudeau government closed the infamous Roxham Road border crossing in March 2023.

For six years, the rural Quebec location had been a conduit for more than 100,000 illegal border crossers. On the southern side, U.S. bus companies ran dedicated services for foreigners seeking to enter Canada and claim asylum. On the northern side, the RCMP spent millions to erect semi-permanent structures to process the influx.

Although Canada could have unilaterally closed the Roxham Road crossing at any time (as it did for several months during the COVID-19 pandemic), the Trudeau government waited until the U.S. had approved a minor modification to the Safe Third Country Agreement to start turning away irregular border crossers.

Regardless, 8,131 irregular border crossers entered Canada in the immediate three months after the Roxham Road closure — a rate higher than almost any point in the six years when the crossing was open.

Since the federal government first started keeping tabs on irregular border crossers in early 2017, 39,643 have been approved as official refugees to 22,611 who have been rejected — a ratio of roughly one rejected claimant for every two who had their case approved by IRCC.