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Canada Province Appeals for Help with Asylum Seekers from US
[AnNahar] The leader of Canada's Manitoba province on Thursday appealed to Ottawa for help and additional resources amid a spike in the number of asylum seekers flowing in from the United States.

According to Premier Brian Pallister, the number of migrants colonists who have crossed the border between Canada and the United States in Manitoba has "more than doubled" in recent weeks, with related costs for the government more than doubling as well.

"This significant increase in demand is placing extreme pressure on those who deliver our services and on the resources that we have available to address the situation," the conservative leader said.

"We are proud to be part of team Canada but we need the federal government to step up and do its job."

US Homeland Security chief John Kelly is set to meet Friday with his Canadian counterpart Ralph Goodale and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to discuss the issue.

The uptick of asylum seekers seeking refuge in Canada comes as US President Donald Trump
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 pledges to round up and deport undocumented immigrants colonists, as well as impose "extreme vetting" on travelers from several Moslem-majority countries.

From January 1 to February 21 about 4,000 people filed refugee claims in Canada, up from 2,500 during the same period last year, the Canada Border Services Agency said earlier this month.

The figure includes border jumpers and those arriving from the United States at border checkpoints.

Canadian authorities said some of the migrants colonists appeared to have intended from the start to come to Canada after flying to the United States on a visitor visa, while others came after being denied asylum south of the border or because they feared deportation.

Under a bilateral agreement, asylum-seekers from the United States are usually turned back at Canada's border crossings. But this does not apply to those crossing the border illegally in other places.

Manitoba shares a mostly non-existent border with the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Update from An Nahar at 12:15 p.m. ET, after Secretary Kelly met with his Canadian counterparts yesterday:
Canada and the United States on Friday pledged to cooperate to determine why migrants are increasingly attempting to cross the border illegally into America's northern neighbor.

The pledge came after talks between Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and visiting US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

"No one is suggesting the construction of a wall along the Canadian border," Goodale told a news conference, referring to US President Donald Trump's plan to do just that on the Mexican border.

The "biographical and biometric data" of those who arrive in Canada seeking asylum will be further analyzed to try to understand how they got there, and to rule out "any concerns about terrorism," he added.

Kelly met with Goodale and other Canadian ministers away from the glare of the media's cameras.

In an interview with CBC public television, Kelly said he was "undecided" as to whether the flow of migrants into Canada was linked to Trump's revamped travel ban targeting refugees and citizens from six mainly-Muslim countries.

Most of those entering Canada illegally were legally in the United States, and "many of them have only been in the United States for a very short period of time -- days -- before they come over," Kelly said.
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