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> Truly spoken like someone who has no information about illegal immigration

Quote from this [0] article: "But in the past 10 years, visa overstays in the United States have outnumbered border crossings by a ratio of about 2 to 1, according to Robert Warren, who was for a decade the director of the statistics division at the agency that has since been renamed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services".

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/re...



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US and Canada are two entirely different countries with entirely different approaches to immigration, and the numbers are wildly different:

> There are no accurate figures representing the number or composition of undocumented immigrants residing in Canada. A guesstimate of about half a million has been proposed nationally [1, 2], but this number varies among other sources which suggest anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000 undocumented workers [3–5]. In 2003, Ontario’s Construction Secretariat purported that there were 76,000 non-status immigrants in Ontario’s construction industry alone, while other sources confirmed that at least 36,000 failed refugee applicants had never been deported, and another 64,000 individuals overstayed their work, student or visitor visas in 2002 [5]. If it is assumed that workers are accompanied by family, the numbers in Ontario would rise to the highest figure previously estimated for all of Canada. With respect to settlement, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto have the highest number of undocumented migrants [6], with nearly 50% residing in Toronto alone [7].

The total number if illegal immigrants is probably around 10% of the yearly intake of legal immigrants.

Whereas US keeps going for new records: https://www.statista.com/statistics/329256/alien-apprehensio...


First you rudely accuse me of being an ignorant for pointing out that illegal immigration often occurs through airports, and when proven wrong you deflect and try to switch the subject instead of admitting that you were mistaken.

It's immature and you can do better than that.


I believe that is incredibly out of date now https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-enc...

I would like to understand how that relates to the method of entry of illegal immigrants into Canada.

Let's remember the root claim that is being disputed:

> How do you expect illegal immigrants to get to Canada when they only border US?


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