Trudeau: Trump’s Child Migrant Policy Is ‘Wrong,

‘Unacceptable’

The prime minister has been pressed to condemn the U.S. practice.

CHRIS WATTIE / REUTERS

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a news conference in Ottawa on May 31, 2018.

OTTAWA — The U.S. policy of separating child migrants from their parents and detaining them at the U.S.-Mexico border is "unacceptable," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.

"What's going on in the United States is wrong, " Trudeau said prior to the weekly Liberal caucus meeting.

"I can't imagine what the families who are living through this are enduring," he added, saying this "is not the way we do things in Canada."

Trudeau has been called upon to condemn the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance policy," under which asylum seekers who cross illegally into the U.S. are charged with federal crimes and separated from their children, who are detained in guarded, fenced enclosures.

On Wednesday, the Canadian Council for Refugees joined others, including NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan, in urging the federal government to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement. The council says the U.S. cannot be considered a safe country for refugees in light of the "disturbing" events at the U.S. border.

The government says it is monitoring the changes in U.S. immigration policy and what effects they will have on asylum seekers in the United States.

The Canada Border Services Agency does detain some immigrants to Canada who are considered a flight risk or a danger to the public, and those whose identities cannot be confirmed. Canadian policy on child migrants allows detained parents to keep their children with them in holding centres if other alternatives cannot be found.

Concerns have been raised in the past over the number of migrant children detained every year by Canadian border officials. Last year, 162 minors were detained or housed with their parents in holding centres.

That number has been going down, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said earlier this week. Last November, he issued a directive to the Canada Border Services Agency to keep children out of detention and keep families together "as much as humanly possible."

Comment:

"Trump better than Trudeau on immigrant children

Trudeau claims what Trump is doing with kids is wrong & it's not the way we do things in Canada.....who's he kidding....

It's exactly the way we do things in Canada.

The only difference is that Trump changed polices hurting kids. He made the change without being pushed by a court order. Trump is pushing hard to "land" 1.8 million young people . Meanwhile, Justin deports kids , including kids in the December 23, 2018 Pilot Project,  in defiance of a Supreme Court of Canada order.

On December 15, 2015 in the case of Kanthasamy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) the Canadian Supreme Court, dictated that children cannot be removed from Canada if they are so well established in Canada that they would suffer psychological harm. The decision was based on Pierre Trudeau's Charter of Rights.

Justin is shameless in his deportation of children covered by the December 2015 decision.

Now he is shameless in holding himself out to as a defender of immigrant children.

I was never a fan of Pierre Trudeau’s policies. But I always respected the man for never lying.

The apple fell far from the tree.

* Justin allows Hussen and Fonseca to lie about the Pilot Project.  

* Justin allows Hussen to  lie on the "very soon " announcement for the new undocumented worker program 

* Justin assured Portuguese Prime Minister Costa that Canada is committed to new rules for undocumented workers 

Now Justin says that he's better than Trump with immigrant children.  

Who , or what ,does this man answer to ? "

Richard Boraks, June 21 2018