/ en /news/u-t-report-highlights-drivers-irregular-migration-canada-us-border-toronto-star <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">°µÍřTV report highlights drivers of 'irregular' migration at Canada-U.S. border: Toronto Star</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/GettyImages-826979538.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=ScW0ym5X 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/GettyImages-826979538.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=QPCDbuLS 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/GettyImages-826979538.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=WciVr7DS 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/GettyImages-826979538.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=ScW0ym5X" alt="Photo of asylum-seekers making way to Canada-U.S. borders"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>perry.king</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-10-28T11:30:12-04:00" title="Monday, October 28, 2019 - 11:30" class="datetime">Mon, 10/28/2019 - 11:30</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Asylum-seekers walk along Roxham Road near Champlain, New York in 2017, making their way towards the Canada-U.S. border (photo by Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/migration" hreflang="en">Migration</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/munk-school-global-affairs-public-policy-0" hreflang="en">Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A&nbsp;report looking at the influx of so-called irregular migrants crossing into Canada&nbsp;has found that misinformation and hostile U.S. refugee policies were the main drivers, the <em>Toronto Star</em> reports.</p> <p>The report&nbsp;was authored by <strong>Craig Damian Smith</strong>, associate director of the&nbsp;<a href="https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/migration/">Global Migration Lab</a>&nbsp;at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy, and research associate at York University's Centre for Refugee Studies. It&nbsp;surveyed 290 of the irregular migrants from more than 50 countries that arrived in the two years starting in the spring of 2017, and found that&nbsp;few of them turned to smugglers to reach the border.</p> <p>Smith told the <em>Toronto Star</em> that Ottawa’s decision to increase the capacity of the Immigration and Refugee Board and reduce misinformation through outreach campaigns was “largely the right response” to the influx.</p> <p>“The RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency conduct routinized security screening,” Smith told the <em>Star</em>. “You don’t have people trafficked. You don’t see the cat-and-mouse game you see in many other parts of the world. People arrive safely, and without criminal networks.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/10/25/hostile-us-refugee-policies-stoking-irregular-migration-to-canada-study-says.html">Read more about the report in the <em>Toronto Star</em></a></h3> <h3><a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/us-policy-safe-third-country-loophole-drive-irregular-migration-canada">Read the report on irregular migration</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:30:12 +0000 perry.king 160055 at