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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
As already discussed though. If they simply wanted to cross into the US illegally or simply work illegally in Canada, that can come here on visit visas and do that. They isn't a large surge of people doing that. They mostly try really hard to get PR. They want real legal status and they want to get on the immigrant ladder. They don't want a lifetime as dishwashers getting paid under the table.
I think we have skewed sense of who these people are. Because we think of illegals in the US. For most of these students, if they weren't taking their shot with Canadian PR, they'd be working in the Gulf to save/make money.
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I think this is more a reflection of the fact that people will do anything to get in and increase their chances of staying here.
The bogus student thing is at least semi-legit, is (was) easily available to them and offered the pretty decent hope that it would work. Illegally crossing some border is a much less attractive proposition.
I don't think there is much more to read into it than that, and I also don't think that we should overestimate the regulatory conformism and respect of these guys too much.