Comment: So much to "the land of the free".
Not sure if the dig is at Canada or the US or both.
The national anthem of Canada has a line
The True North strong and free!
Canada certainly has a wonky immigration policy, some parts of it in line with the US and some parts not.
One can lay blame on Trudeau for the last ten years of influx of asylum seekers - around 10,000/month latest figures 2025, but the values seem to follow the world wide trend for western countries.
Asylum claimants by year – 2025
www.canada.ca
Total immigration increased from around 200,000/year circa 2000-'s to 450,000 starting in the 2020's.
Per capita, Canada has one of the highest, if not the highest, rate of newcomers to the country. Before that, there was discussion on whether 60,000 was too, too much.
I do believe at one time in the far past, family re-unification was part of the immigration policy, but that seems sidelined either by design, or as having become a lessor percentage of the overall influx. Economic considerations began to bear down on acceptability. One could buy their way in through a business investment, university tuition, perhaps by some other means such as sponsorship by an existing business to fulfill open employment positions, and of course temporary work permits.
As per the item mentioned, that should fall under family re-unification, or something of the sort ( caregiver and support ), I would have thought.
Why is it wonky? Cuz, to change his status, the individual would have had to exit Canada, re-apply, and suffer several years of papers shuffling from the official bureaucracy, with no absolute certainty of acceptance of becoming a permanent resident to help out his partner.
While I do not agree with the judges reasons for the temporary stay order ( was he himself being persecuted in some way? ), I do agree in the end result.
The stay would be better served had she been able to invoke caretaker status upon the individual to avoid the deportation order.
In the end, she is smarter than the immigration agent and his/her checklist.
Maybe she should run the department and get rid of the other pencil pushing doinks in Ottawa.
One will find this funny if not for the tragic results to the individual.
Early in the year, a young lady ( European, maybe Irish ) attempted to cross over from the US into Canada. She was on a backpack tour of the US, and after travelling her way around, she ended up at the Washington/British Columbia border enroute to see 'friends' in Vancouver. Although she had entered the US on a tourist visa, she did do an odd job for the peoples she stayed with such as washing the dishes, cleaning the house. If any monetary funds exchanged hands, it would have been minimal.
At the Canadian border house she was asked on how she was going to support her stay in Canada. I guess the incorrect answer was something similar to 'do odd jobs at the place of residence'.
She was denied entry into Canada, as that is work even if unpaid, pointed back to the US, to re-apply for admission into Canada. with proper paperwork.
Since, the same conditions apply Canada and the US for a tourist visa, she was now found out, ICE'd, and deported.
Apparently a tourist visa means exactly that. You are a tourist. Doing any sort of job, paid or not, even if trying to just help out, invalidates the requirements of the visa.
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