Quebec Premier François Legault is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to send a new message to dissuade asylum seekers from coming to Canada, blaming the massive number of illegal border crossings on a 2017 tweet from the prime minister.
Legault said that many people have come to Canada to claim asylum using Roxham Road, which connects Quebec and New York State, a day after Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Fréchette confirmed that the province has redirected most of the nearly 400 asylum seekers who passed through Roxham Road last weekend to Ontario and other jurisdictions.
The premier blamed this pattern of illegal border crossing on a 2017 Twitter post made by the prime minister, who said that “to those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you.”…