PM Trudeau Says Canada Welcomes Refugees

[JonLP24]

Source: New York Times

TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will welcome you.

He says he also intends to talk to Trump about the success of Canada's refugee policy.

Trudeau reacted to Trump's visa ban for people from certain Muslim-majority countries by tweeting Saturday: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada."

Trudeau also posted a picture of him greeting a Syrian child at Toronto's airport in late 2015. Trudeau oversaw the arrival of more than 39,000 Syrian refugees soon after he was elected.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/28/world/middleeast/ap-cn-canada-trump-refugees.html?_r=0

[shenmue]

1. Canada nicer than us yet again

[tenorly]

5. Sad, but true.

In South America, during the dictatorships of the 1970s, dissidents in those countries could rarely count on the U.S. Embassy for help (not until the Carter years); they relied on Canada's.

They saved hundreds of people from certain death in those days, as did Venezuela and, ironically, Colombia and Mexico (given their own recent Dirty Wars). U.S. Embassies began to help once Carter took office; but by then most of the carnage had already taken place.

[Rural_Progressive]

2. Hope he'll think about letting us in soon

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. I live in fear

I would love to flee the terror I feel every day. But I'm old and not rich, so I doubt I'd be accepted.

[AgadorSparticus]

4. Oh....I thought he meant American refugees.

[Linc13]

6. I like this...

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Trump's mother (who he adored) was not born in the USA. . . . nt

[watoos]

8. If Melania didn't get a proper work visa

when she came to America, she is in reality an illegal immigrant.
She hasn't produced any proof, any work papers, that she was working here legally.
Deport her.