Over the last number of years, here in Canada we read and saw all the economic migrants/refugees making their way to Europe in flimsy boats and many of them dying. The graphic image of a dead child spurred our own efforts to take Syrian refugees. We also watched and read how the economic migrants moved from one country to another , often forced on, in search of a country who would take them in and provide benefits. The ultimate prize is Britain, but the Channel and a fence and heavy security has blocked those efforts. As they moved from country to country to country , their status never changed, they were economic migrants. This is important as it seems to be overlooked that those crossing our border illegally, originally were economic migrants , just as all those millions of Mexicans who crossed into the States before them. No one has chased them them or forced them out of the States, they are coming here, just like those in Europe to get a better deal.