Indians have been trying for a long time to get into Canada:
But now I guess the word has gotten out that Canada sucks and is expensive and super gay, so now all the Indians are pouring from Canada into the United States:
I'll be honest with you, I was shocked to hear this from NPR of all places, but here we are.
While we've been focused on illegal crossings from Mexico, and the completely legal "temporary" migrants from Haiti and Venezuela taking over midwest cities, no one has been watching our neighbors to the north.
A group of immigrants from India pile out of a taxi minivan beside the Clinton County, New York, government building in this small upstate city half an hour from the Canadian border.
They are quickly swarmed by a half a dozen fellow Indian immigrants who've waited hours for this business opportunity.
This fleet of jitney taxis offering migrants rides south to New York City is one clear example of the informal economy that's sprung up following a significant increase in unauthorized crossings across the usually sleepy northern border over the last year and a half.
For the last year and a half, the number of illegal border crossings from Canada has skyrocketed, but about 60% of these illegal immigrants are from India.
'I rent a car, I come here,' Says Shivam, a 20-year-old driver from India who goes by only a surname. 'So people coming, I'm just helping them.'
But make no mistake, this is business, and business is booming.
Yeah, we've got taxis illegally shuttling people who flew into Canada from the border to the interior of the United States. Particularly NYC.
This year, 20,000 illegal immigrants have crossed ports of entry between the US and Canada, which is a 95% increase over the previous fiscal year.
Obviously, this number only includes the number of people that have been caught.
Shivam and other drivers charge anywhere from $150 to up to $300 per person for the six-hour drive to the Big Apple. There migrants will search for work or head to other cities across America.
This is illegal human smuggling, by the way. But NPR doesn't care enough to call it what it is.
New York City, already being overrun by migrants, is now facing a two-front war with illegal immigrants coming from the north and the south.
Shivam himself crossed into the U.S. illegally a few weeks ago, through the thick woods connecting Canada to upstate New York.
He says it was challenging.
'I had to walk through the forest and at night it's dark and there's lots of trees and bushes and the forest is full of mud because of the rain,' Shivam says.
He's now awaiting a hearing in front of an immigration judge after claiming asylum in the U.S. But he admits, he came here mostly for work, and because 'I get more opportunities in the U.S. compared to Canada.'
This is your average "asylum seeker" ladies and gentlemen.
He has no real reason to seek asylum, did not claim asylum in Canada, claimed asylum in US, admits he doesn't need asylum and he's just there to work.
And that work is mostly illegally smuggling humans.
(But you're a big bad meanie if you don't sacrifice the safety of your hometown to support these poor refugees.)
While a majority of Canadian border-hoppers are Indians, they aren't alone.
NPR wraps up with a "sob story" of a Venezuelan man who tried to illegally cross from the Mexican border and got turned around, a very rare occurrence.
So he found a way to fly into Canada and cross from the north. He was detained by Border Patrol and let go after his "asylum" claim.
As he figures out how to get there, an Indian taxi driver offers him a ride south.
Morales says he only has $150 Canadian dollars. The Indian driver tells him that's 'no good.'
'This is the U.S., not Canada,' the driver tells him. Eventually he tells Morales he will drive him.
Morales is then rushed to get into an SUV with a group of Haitian immigrants.
The driver — a different Indian driver — tells him it's about a six-hour car ride down on I-87 to New York City.
Other drivers stay put at the bus stop — they know a new wave of migrants is sure to show up soon.
How many more stories like this before we open our eyes and realize we don't have a country any more - it's just a free-for-all land grab at this point?
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