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It can be argued that a lot of this is falling into the slippery slope fallacy.

Also the media doesn’t always report the full story. Often the people arrested have some small/medium offense from years ago.

Unlikely to happen to legal immigrants.



Nonetheless, I will continue to choose to spend my travel dollars elsewhere until the US administration is crystal clear that Canada is a sovereign country, due process is a thing, and vanning people off of street corners (regardless of their skin colour or immigration status) is not the way.


Many of them have a small offense that would justify them being turned away from the border, but not an offense that justifies detention.


That’s fair. And if they can be turned away from the border, then they can be deported too.




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