加拿大 非法越境者 每天可获得224加元的食宿费用

一些非法越境者在等待处理期间，每天可获得224加元的食宿费用。

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、难民及公民部记录了42,387名非法越境者正在等待审理的难民申请。

Tristin Hopper  May 13, 2024

随着加拿大难民申请人数创下新高，一位保守党议员透露，渥太华每天的预算约为224加元，用于为一些非法入境后申请庇护的外国人提供食宿。

上周，保守党议员莉安·鲁德（Lianne Rood）在社交媒体上上传了一份文件，其中展示了政府对她提出的关于向已在加拿大申请庇护但尚未获得移民局审核的外国人提供哪些“商品和服务”的问题的答复。

平均住宿费用为“每间房每晚140加元”，平均餐费为“每位申请人每天84加元”，总计每位申请人每天224加元。

如果算上其他免费提供给申请人的“必需品”，包括“洗漱用品、药品、尿布”，每日津贴可能还会更高。

“无论申请人如何进入加拿大，入住IRCC运营酒店的申请人，一旦被安置，都会获得住宿和餐饮，”这份由多元化与包容性部长议会秘书保罗·蒋（Paul Chiang）签署的官方答复中写道。

“新民主党-自由党政府给予非法越境者的福利是其为帮助加拿大老年人提供的福利的十倍！可耻！”鲁德在5月7日X上传该文件的帖子的配文中写道。

根据IRCC的最新数据，该机构正在处理156,032份庇护申请——尽管并非所有申请者都在加拿大境内，并居住在IRCC的酒店内。

由于大量寻求庇护者涌入市政运营的庇护所，特鲁多政府最近启动了“临时住房援助计划”，旨在“为那些原本无处栖身的申请者提供有限的临时住所”。

去年11月，该计划在加拿大各地运营了3,800个房间，收容了约7,000名申请者，每年总成本为5.57亿加元。

鲁德的问题是关于联邦政府称之为“非法越境者”的特定类别的庇护寻求者。这些人是在非法入境加拿大后提出国内庇护申请的。按照IRCC的官方说法，非法越境者是在“官方入境口岸之间”进入加拿大的。

而这类申请的待审数量达到了历史最高水平。截至2023年底，IRCC记录了42,387份非法越境者提出的难民申请。

仅在2023年的最后三个月，就有2,145人在非法入境后在加拿大提出了庇护申请——平均每小时就有一人。

在同一三个月内，当局只处理了4,139个案件，而之前排队等候的案件有44,000个；其中3,188个案件被接受为正式难民，其余951个案件要么被拒绝、撤回，要么被放弃。

尽管特鲁多政府于2023年3月关闭了臭名昭著的罗克瑟姆路（Roxham Road）过境点，但非法入境人数依然居高不下。

六年来，魁北克省的这片乡村地区一直是十多万非法越境者的通道。在南边，美国巴士公司为寻求进入加拿大并申请庇护的外国人提供专线服务。在北边，加拿大皇家骑警花费数百万美元建造了半永久性设施来处理涌入的非法移民。

尽管加拿大本可以随时单方面关闭罗克瑟姆路过境点（就像在新冠疫情期间关闭了几个月一样），但特鲁多政府一直等到美国批准对《安全第三国协议》进行小幅修改后，才开始拒绝非法越境者。

无论如何，在罗克瑟姆路关闭后的三个月内，有8131名非法越境者进入加拿大——这一比例几乎高于该过境点开放六年来的任何时期。

自 2017 年初联邦政府开始密切关注非法越境者以来，已有 39,643 人获得正式难民批准，而 22,611 人被拒绝——大约每两名获得 IRCC 批准的难民申请者中，就有一人被拒绝。

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.