{"id":2645,"date":"2023-02-20T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:14:13","slug":"pathetic-quebec-premier-has-to-beg-new-york-city-mayor-to-stop-giving-bus-tickets-to-illegals-to-come-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Pathetic?: Quebec Premier Has to Beg New York City Mayor to Stop Giving Bus Tickets to Illegals to Come to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Quebec tells Eric Adams to stop buying NY migrants bus tickets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/13\/quebec-tells-eric-adams-to-stop-buying-ny-migrants-bus-tickets\/\">Jack Morphet<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Canada\u2019s second-most populated province is demanding that Mayor Eric Adams \u201cimmediately\u201d stop <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/05\/migrants-abandon-nyc-for-canada-with-taxpayer-funded-bus-tickets\/\">helping migrants illegally enter the Great White North<\/a>, as recently revealed by The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny form of assistance to migrants crossing the border where it is strictly forbidden to do so should stop immediately,\u201d a spokesperson for Quebec Premier Francois Legault said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe understand that the situation of migrants in New York poses major challenges, but the situation in Quebec and particularly in Montreal is even worse and constitutes an important humanitarian issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, The Post exclusively reported that Adams was using taxpayer funds to get bus tickets for migrants in the Big Apple to travel upstate to Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, migrants take taxis and vans to a cul-de-sac at the end of Roxham Road in Champlain, where they walk across the border and surrender to Canadian Mounties to seek asylum, as The Post documented on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>see also<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nyc-pays-illegals-us-fare-to-canada.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"586\" src=\"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nyc-pays-illegals-us-fare-to-canada.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2646\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/05\/migrants-abandon-nyc-for-canada-with-taxpayer-funded-bus-tickets\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/05\/migrants-abandon-nyc-for-canada-with-taxpayer-funded-bus-tickets\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/05\/migrants-abandon-nyc-for-canada-with-taxpayer-funded-bus-tickets\/\">Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 250 migrants use the Roxham Road crossing to illegally enter Canada each day, with nearly all of them settling in Montreal, Quebec\u2019s biggest city, Legault spokesperson Ewan Sauves said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation has overwhelmed Montreal\u2019s ability to provide housing and other public services, with the flood of new students alone equivalent to the opening of 13 new schools, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, 39,161 people used Roxham Road to illegally enter Canada, comprising 99.1% of all such border crossings, Sauves said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By comparison, the latest figures released by City Hall on Monday showed that officials have processed more than 45,600 migrants since the spring, with about 29,100<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/01\/mexican-immigrant-blasts-nyc-migrants-who-expect-hotel\/\"> housed in 91 emergency shelters<\/a> as of Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/NYPICHPDPICT000006448880.jpg\"><\/a>Mayor Eric Adams has defended funding nonprofits to \u201creticket\u201d migrants who want to leave the city and go to Canada.Paul Martinka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those figures likely represent an undercount, however, because they don\u2019t include migrants who stay with relatives, friends and other people in their networks after arriving in New York, according to City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But while the Big Apple\u2019s population is nearly 8.5 million, Montreal\u2019s is just 1.7 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams\u2019 office didn\u2019t immediately return a request for comment, but the mayor last week defended <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/09\/eric-adams-slams-ny-times-story-about-migrant-trips-to-canada\/\">funding various nonprofits<\/a>, including Catholic Charities, to \u201creticket\u201d migrants who want to leave the city and go to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/NYPICHPDPICT000006615675.jpg\"><\/a>Quebec Premier Francois Legault said all aiding of migrants crossing the border \u201cshould stop immediately.\u201dGetty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are not encouraging anyone to go to another country,\u201d Adams said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN. \u201cIf we speak with a migrant, interview them, [we] find out their desires and make sure that we are assisting them like we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surge in border crossings at Roxham Road has sparked controversy in Quebec, with the separatist Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois recently calling for police intervention and the creation of an \u201cenclave\u201d to block the Roxham Road path between the US and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another separatist political party, Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, tweeted Friday that Quebec was not an \u201call-inclusive,\u201d sparking outrage from the democratic socialist party Qu\u00e9bec solidaire, <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/debate-over-roxham-road-taking-worrying-turn-says-quebec-solidaire-1.6271028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Canadian Press<\/a> reported Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn all-inclusive is a place where we go to crash on the beach drinking margaritas,\u201d Qu\u00e9bec solidaire spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said while attending the party\u2019s national council in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people who enter Quebec to apply for asylum are people who are fleeing violence, exploitation, persecution. They are not people who want to take it easy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadeau-Dubois added: \u201cThese comparisons have no place.\u201d (New York Post, February 13, 2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec tells Eric Adams to stop buying NY migrants bus tickets By Jack Morphet, The government of Canada\u2019s second-most populated province is demanding that Mayor Eric Adams \u201cimmediately\u201d stop helping migrants illegally enter the Great White North, as recently revealed by The Post. \u201cAny form of assistance to migrants crossing the border where it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1901,1874,92,1046],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}