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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 3000563" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/olympic-stadium-houses-asylum-seekers-1.4231808" target="_blank">Montreal&#039;s Olympic Stadium used to house surge in asylum seekers crossing from U.S.</a>Mayor welcomes asylum seekers Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre wrote on Twitter that the city welcomes the Haitian asylum seekers. In his tweet, he calls them refugees, but it&#039;s unclear if they&#039;ve been given refugee status at this point.&quot;You can count on our full co-operation,&quot; he wrote.However, it&#039;s unclear if they&#039;ll be able to stay. Asylum seekers originally from Haiti who have crossed the Canada-U.S. border could be deported back to Haiti if their application is refused, because Canadian authorities deem Haiti as a sufficiently safe country.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 3000563, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/olympic-stadium-houses-asylum-seekers-1.4231808"]Montreal's Olympic Stadium used to house surge in asylum seekers crossing from U.S.[/URL] [SIZE=5][B]Mayor welcomes asylum seekers [/B][/SIZE] Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre wrote on Twitter that the city welcomes the Haitian asylum seekers. In his tweet, he calls them refugees, but it's unclear if they've been given refugee status at this point. "You can count on our full co-operation," he wrote. However, it's unclear if they'll be able to stay. Asylum seekers originally from Haiti who have crossed the Canada-U.S. border could be deported back to Haiti if their application is refused, because Canadian authorities deem Haiti as a sufficiently safe country. [/QUOTE]

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