we have a severe crisis in access to affordable housing, here.

it has to be one way or the other: we have to build more affordable housing, or we have to crack down on refugees. we can't just leave the doors wide open and let the market deal with it - or we'll become the places that these people are fleeing from.

fwiw, i think building more affordable housing would be the preferable solution, and i've supported refugee resettlement in the past for that reason, even as i've argued for more screening to exclude candidates with low levels of education (because low education levels are correlated with social conservatism, and i don't want to shift the balance of public opinion in the country, although i fear this has already happened). i don't really care about the issue on a moral level, but greater access to affordable housing helps everybody, in the end. but, if the government won't pony up and pay for it, it's going to have to crack down on it.

it's the hands-off status quo that needs to end: build housing to accommodate these people (and everybody else), or enforce the law and throw them out.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-deportations-border-removals-1.4873169