Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he and Joe Biden will discuss stemming the flow of irregular migration into Canada when the U.S. President visits Ottawa next month.
Trudeau has been under pressure over the increasing number of asylum seekers entering from the U.S. at a border crossing not far from Champlain, New York. It’s about 40 miles south of Montreal.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault has said his province doesn’t have the capacity to handle the influx of migrants right now, and wrote a letter to Trudeau asking him to press the issue with Biden. There were nearly 5,000 asylum claims in Quebec in January, according to federal data — far more than any other Canadian province.
