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It's an absolute joke, if you can qualify for a student visa, you should not be able to qualify for asylum. Period. And I bet you if we had an nationality breakdown of those 13k students, 95% of them would be from India.

Applying asylum on a student visa after entering canada is first huge violation of study permit.

No more students no more work permit Get back to u country

That needs to be shut down fast. The main culprit is India whose applicants need extra scrutiny.. If you file a claim after coming as a student it should be automatically rejected. If not automatic at the minimum it needs to be expedited and rejected for coming to Canada on false pretenses.

By international students you mean Indians

How stupid the government is? If a person comes to Canada as a student, he/she should be able to stay in Canada only as a student and during the educational term. Otherwise should be kicked out of the country ASAP! I don’t want my tax money to be spent for the international scammers! Enough is enough!!!

Canada should put 5 year temporary stop on International students from any country in world! This is will settle the excess that has got in and after 2029, Canada should resume International students. This will fix job crisis as it is imposible to get a job at Tim Hortons, AW, Subway and all franchise businesses. Just 5 year ban on any student who is not Canadian. This ban should be done in very thoughtful manner without insulting any country, citizenship, race, gender or anything. Sometimes you have to clean entire house and in order do that you have to ask people to stay outside house for some time.

Ohh we want to help millions and you don't have food for them , ohh call in students to fund our retirement, ohh we going to hire cineplexxets do hate campaign

It’s because we have no housing for students ??

Unfortunately, you get the terrible kind of Indians migrating to Western countries as cultural immigrants. Earlier during the British era, it was only high-quality immigrants from Bengal and Tamilnadu who won Oscars, and Nobel Prizes, and invented multiple medical treatments, took yoga to the west. After Indian independence people from the culturally worst states of India migrated to the West. Those states are already famous in India for being religiously bigot, conservative, being abusive to women. These people never go to the West to enrich themselves but go only to earn money. Now western people can't differentiate them from the rest of the Indians. Although many are trying ....Australian universities banned students from specific Indian states, and UK universities restrict them. Other genuine Indians are taking the hit for those bastards. It's not a good sight to see every visa medical, application center filled with Punjabis, they tore down the Indian image of taxi, and truck drivers as their image is the same in India.

All the programs that bring in students and foreign workers need to end. All that came here for schooling or temp work need to go home

Real international student brings money and high quality people to Canada. However,there are some students coming to Canada aiming to work and to gain income back home. Why entrepreneurs and start up programs that can bring money to Canada takes years (over 3 years) to process and the number of applications is shrinking. Canada needs money to sustains the economy. Importing thousands and thousands of servants but not enough money to pay? Why don’t they look into the infrastructure and the system of the country when planning their immigration policies? The money behind these policies must be big.

What a crock!!! Why are student being allowed this.. Canada is overrun!!! Wake up ppl

Indian's are making $4-5m every year in Canada and each of them are sending $5000 to india every month. Ieagle or illegally they are sending the money. They are getting more than 40 hours in work when they are allowed to work 20 house as a student. They don't need any Canadian experience to get the job.

Its student fault. You chose the school and you would not face this situation if you had come to a reputed school not a mule

It's not only Indians , All ASIANS who skimped and borrowed money to apply for a student visa.. What is wrong , they let their family come with them which is not supposed to be.. They have to work and support the family they came with. . .Blamed the immigration for their stupidity.

Sorry but the answer is no. You are just a temporary student to study for some kind of degree or something and then take that knowledge back to your home country and apply it there.\n\nMaximum stay 4 years and go away unless you are doing doctorate then it's 7 years and go away

13 K international students should NEVER be allowed to apply for asylum. Canada does not need any of them. GO HOME Canada has no moral responsibility to welcome anyone into the country. I believe Justin Trudeau has a moral responsibility to take care and make sure Canadians come first.

Canada's national debt increased so much is because of providing msp to all these international students... $100 pee month per person to get full medical coverage? Some of the students came here just to treat their sickness !!!

this is no new they been lie this all time for years they say student you cant get Citizen chip they need to read moreeee

They need to investigate every claim. International students getting their visa denied doesn’t make them all refugees or needing asylum. Consequences are needed!!

We don't need any more Uber drivers. We got problems of our own. Canada and Canadians are under no political and moral obligation to assist these students. Please return these burdens back to their righteous owners.

Students are still better, than those who cross the border illegaly.

I came here as an international student back in 2010....and I can tell ypu they system is not beoken but destrpyed

International Student here who did his Masters in Canada.\n Conduct Interviews in the Home country like how the USA does. I'm pretty sure the numbers would dial down.

Funny how the numbers went way up after Canada tightened up the student visa situation.\nSeems like a hurry up before it’s too late situation.

Simple fact is you apply as a student visa you automatically get deny as asylum seekers.

This is a reaction to the potential loss of their student visas, not some jumping the queue scheme. The changes in the student visa system has created this temporary panic. A student who is in second or third year has already spent a lot of money to get an education and then lose that money and not have a degree. The years and money would be lost, then they would have to go through the process again in other country has caused this. Many of these student will remain as students and get their degrees and go home as they have in the past. Our university have had foreign students forever and it has worked. The anti-immigrant trolls should be ashamed. We are all immigrants here, unless we are aboriginal so we shouldn't point fingers. People are coming to Canada because it is their best chance for a future. Your ancestors though so too.

This is the loophole into canada. Time to disallow international students. No more!!!!!

It's unfair that students who arrived with substantial fees from their home countries are now being considered refugees. The government should simply refuse their registration without processing their claims. They clearly do not fit the definition of refugees, so why register them and provide them with food, medicine, bus tickets, park passes, and toys for their children? It’s frustrating to see refugee children enjoying state-of-the-art tech gadgets while our own kids struggle to get proper school lunches

Kudos to you for this video. My very optimistic view is good intentions did not produce expected results. Government should be understood as municipality, provincial and federal. Also inequality and joblessness in India has pushed more young people to for opportunities elsewhere. Who allowed sprouting of colleges? Who monitors renting of housing to students? What is responsibility of councillors MPPs and MPs? Irrespective of parties many of these elected positions of all levels are Indians. I agree with your thesis that Indians are mostly to blame. This prevents the right type needed migration and talent scouting that government needs.

Why guarantee asylum an international student?

This isn't new. International students pay more to attend our universities, and always have. That's why universities prefer international students over Canadian citizens. As far as claiming asylum...big deal. That's been happening ever since Europeans came here, especially the white waves after WW's 1&2. Now, descendants of those people, are saying 'no more immigration'.

They are doing well coming to Canada as a student. Then become asylum seekers ?

On what valid grounds that these students claim for asylum?or they just desperately to stay in Canada the fact that they are international students so it means they can afford the tuition fees and having good financial situations.?

Part of this problem isnt on Canada. Its the immigrants themselves faking and gaming trying to do anyting possible to get PR...a lot of that has to do with their home country cashing in on programs and promise BS only to get paid. Majority of the influx is south east asia from Pakistan, Bangaldesh and India in general taking up all the low end labour that students used to be the ones employed in those positions. There is a reason every fast food chain is mostly 90% south indians.

They are not ‘international students’ they are illegal immigrants. When they applied for students visa in India or Bangladesh they did not have any reason for asylum.

How can Canada do proper security checks on all foreign students or the almost 7 million immigrants in last 5 years.

Couple of years ago, when no Canadian wanted to work at a store or deliver food and groceries due to Covid , nobody minded the students were doing these jobs. Now people are out and they want these jobs, so what do we do - kick the students out , ain’t that smart ?

Truth of the matter is, during Covid government and the people of Canada needed people to work as most Canadians were not ready to work and stayed home in fear. Now Canadians need those jobs and these students brought in with a selfish need are not needed anymore. What do we do? Throw them out - ain’t that smart ?

Which party with all of them tell me if they are better. Think about Covid and the hughley secured lab 99% foreign students not one student was Canadian. I praise the RCMP from the bottom of my heart ir will have perish with illegal shipments to other countrie from are Tax payers money. Support are kids we don't have to go to USA when are provincial Government is involved and then says shortage of Doctors. First preference to provincial students then other province then only international students.

Most of those international students applied refugee visas from india and they should deport them right way without even check their files.

yeeah they pretend they are bringing in all these students for great minds and skills.. lmfao gimme a break we all know where these ppl are working and what shady schools are around our cities. It absolutely has been abused as a back door entry program for immigration and then they sponsor their families to come here etc... shame for all the ppl who go through proper immigration channels and have to pay much more money

Goes to show how abused the system is. They’ll just pick any avenue that works. I can’t pretend to be a student? Okay, I’ll pretend to be a refugee instead.

Why can’t they be deported immediately when they claim asylum if they came here as students

International students aint refugee. Like dam i came here as a refugees n i support refugees applying for a better life. But all these international students are just trying to take advantage of Canadian system

If they came on a student visa, they came in to study then go home...not seek asylum

Disgusting…. They are scamming the system. Asylum get 6000$ a month from our taxes. Take care of Canadians. International students just want a back door into Canada, they can’t even afford school or housing when they come and just claim refugee once they realize that. The government has allowed this to happen- taxing our incomes to the extreme when we work hard and can barely make rent to give it to random scam artists

Everyone is taking advantage of this program, the students, the institutions and the government. The only people not benefitting are working Canadians trying to find housing and eat a decent wage.\nThe program needs to be cancelled.

It seems like a good number of them are coming from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Middle East. We should definitely think about stopping student admissions, especially since tourist visas are being used to rush into Canada and apply for asylum. We need to put a stop to this kind of system abuse.