Quebec premier says Roxham Road must be ‘priority’ for Trudeau at meeting with Biden | 24CA News

Quebec Premier François Legault desires Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the circulate of migrants throughout the Roxham Road border crossing a precedence throughout an upcoming assembly with the U.S. president.

Legault says in a letter to Trudeau dated Sunday that the federal authorities urgently wants to finish the renegotiation of an settlement with the United States that has pushed asylum seekers to enter Canada at irregular border crossings.

Legault says Quebec’s capability to welcome individuals getting into by the unofficial crossing in southern Quebec has been overwhelmed, and that the tens of 1000’s of surprising arrivals have made it tougher to cease the decline of the French language in Montreal.

Federal statistics present that greater than 39,000 individuals claimed asylum after they had been intercepted by the RCMP crossing Canada’s land border into Quebec in 2022, in contrast with 369 in the remainder of the nation.

The premier welcomes the federal authorities’s resolution to switch migrants crossing into Quebec to Ontario however says within the letter Ottawa should do extra to redirect migrants to different provinces.

Trudeau is scheduled to satisfy with U.S. President Joe Biden in March.