Canada and the United States both support a holistic, long-term approach to their shared immigration challenges, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday after a meeting in the U.S. capital with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Both the federal Liberal government in Ottawa and President Joe Biden's administration are under mounting political pressure to do something about the growing number of migrants who circumvent legal channels to enter their respective countries.
In response, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has publicly acknowledged that it's time for Canada and U.S. to renegotiate the 2004 immigration treaty that creates an incentive for migrants to sneak onto Canadian soil. Fraser said he and Mayorkas had a "very useful conversation" about the treaty and both sides committed to "continuing our work," but he demurred when asked whether his counterpart had shown any enthusiasm for renegotiating it.
"Roxham Road will have to be closed eventually, whether we like it or not," Legault wrote in a letter to the prime minister last month. As part of that effort, some of Biden's critics have taken to talking more and more about the Canada-U.S. border, though the scope of irregular migration is nowhere near the numbers at the U.S.-Mexico frontier.
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