New migration options for South Africans.

While Australia is already home to over 180,000 South Africans or almost 1% of the country's

population, this number could soon dramatically increase. More than 200 South Africans have recently applied for Australian humanitarian visas following comments by that country's minister of Home Affairs, Peter Dutton. The sympathetic attitude displayed by Dutton towards white farmers facing land seizures and violence, could open the floodgates to tens of thousands of South African migrants claiming asylum and using 'humanitarian' grounds to enter Australia.  

While Australia is one possible option, Canada presents another alternative to migrants with humanitarian claims, as Canada appears to be losing control of its land border with the United States. Potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants and asylum-seekers are expected to enter the country this year, at a rate of about 400 per day. The majority of these are Nigerians with legal U.S. tourist visas and who are simply walking across the Quebec border and claiming asylum.

At this rate, Quebec should see an influx of about 150,000 ‘asylum’ seekers and probably double that for the whole of Canada.

Asylum-seekers are welcomed at the border by RCMP officers and are taken to reception facilities. After processing, they are provided with housing, medical and social services and work permits, while their asylum applications are investigated - this could take two years or more.

It will hardly be a surprise if tens of thousands of South African migrants with easy-to-obtain U.S. tourist visas, do begin to use asylum claims (real of bogus), as grounds to enter Canada through the land border with the U.S. this year, along with their continental Nigerian counterparts.

There are of course other ways to enter Australia and Canada, with formal points-based emigration just one option. Another way is through citizenship by investment, with residency visas issued in exchange for investments starting at AUD 1.5 million or Can$800,000.

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Has Canada lost control of its borders?

A year after celebrating its 150 birthday, Canada appears to have lost control of its land border with the United States, with potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants and bogus asylum-seekers expected to enter the country in 2018.

After a huge influx in 2017 of Haitians trying to avoid being sent back to Haiti by the U.S., this year substantial numbers of Nigerian and Central American citizens are walking across the Quebec border and demanding asylum. The Quebec government estimates that more than 400 people could be crossing the border per day this summer, compared to 250 in 2017. Of course, this is only in Quebec, so the overall numbers could be much larger. At this rate, Quebec should see an influx of about 150,000 ‘asylum’ seekers and the whole of Canada probably double that, or about 300,000, equal to Canada's official immigration numbers.

Reception facilities, housing, medical and social services are stretched to breaking point and the frustration at this abuse of Canada’s traditional welcoming culture is running high among Canadians. Add to this the resentment felt by the hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants who have been on waiting lists for years and who have spent thousands of dollars to apply for residence visas. With the Liberal Party refusing to close the loophole in the Safe Third Country agreement with the U.S., it is sure that the government will be severely punished in the 2019 general election. Most Canadians welcome immigrants and appreciate multiculturalism, but do not agree with the liberal, George Soros-style ‘open-borders’ ideology and with policies that endanger Canada’s territorial integrity.

Johann van Rooyen

Political Analyst and Director of the Citizenship by Investment Research Consultancy

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