Canada warned this Friday of its limited capacity to accept refugees and migrants from the United States, where President Donald Trump has promised to expel millions of undocumented immigrants.
Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller told the media that the country will continue to be “a humanitarian country.”
“We have a limited capacity to adequately accommodate people,” explained the Canadian minister. “We will continue doing our work as a country that has heart and “is concerned with settling people who are fleeing wars,” he added.
Miller put the number of Ukrainians at 300,000. Canada has welcomed since the Russian invasion of the country and at 50,000 Afghans that have arrived since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan.
On Monday, Trump signed an executive order that considered the admission of refugees from the United States “detrimental to the interests” of the country and ordered his suspension as of January 27.
Two days later, the Trump Administration canceled the flights of about 10,000 refugees who had already received approval to move to the United States.
This Friday, the US authorities They began to use military flights to deport migrants to Guatemala, a gesture that the White House described as a message for irregular migrants.
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