How to deal with gay refugee claimants?

[Savant]

As many are likely aware, a refugee claimant can use their sexual preference as a means to apply for refugee status. This this is not to talk about homosexuality, but is instead to ask the question, how do you tell?

More and more people are showing up as refugees, and claiming they are 'gay' as a means to subvert the process. After all, it's not like there is some simple 'test' that you can do to validate one's sexual preference.

This issue came to a head last week when a federal court judge rejected a Nigerian man's claim that he was gay and was fleeing persecution. I won't go into details but you can read some of the story here.

So this begs the question, how does Canada deal with genuine refugee claimants, while sifting out those who are trying to abuse the system using whatever lie they think will give them the best advantage? It used to be that a fake marriage was seen as a sure thing, but with crackdowns to check the validity of such unions, refugees are now playing the 'gay' card more and more.

Without some reliable means to deal with this issue, there may soon be a flood of illegal immigrants using this back door as a means to enter Canada that they wouldn't have been able to use otherwise.

[Riverwind]

As many are likely aware, a refugee claimant can use their sexual preference as a means to apply for refugee status.

There are probably 4 billion people on the planet that could probably come up with a decent excuse to make a refugee claim. We cannot possibly take them all so any system we set up will be arbitrary and decried as unfair by people who cannot see the big picture. Priority should be given to people who are refugees because they tried to stand up to the authorities in their home country. People who simply suffer the abuses of backward cultures are sad stories but there are too many of them so we should accept none or at accept that decision on who to accept or reject will be arbitrary. Edited August 4, 2008 by Riverwind

[Wild Bill]

There are probably 4 billion people on the planet that could probably come up with a decent excuse to make a refugee claim. We cannot possibly take them all so any system we set up will be arbitrary and decried as unfair by people who cannot see the big picture. Priority should be given to people who are refugees because they tried to stand up to the authorities in their home country. People who simply suffer the abuses of backward cultures are sad stories but there are too many of them so we should accept none or at accept that decision on who to accept or reject will be arbitrary.

+1! Some seem to have forgotten that we don't HAVE to take ANYBODY! We accept refugees out of the goodness of our hearts. Only someone with no heart could refuse to take someone shipwrecked into their lifeboat.

Only someone with no brain would take so many that the lifeboat would sink and drown EVERYONE!

[TomS]

+1! Some seem to have forgotten that we don't HAVE to take ANYBODY! We accept refugees out of the goodness of our hearts. Only someone with no heart could refuse to take someone shipwrecked into their lifeboat.

Only someone with no brain would take so many that the lifeboat would sink and drown EVERYONE!

Well said.

[Wilber]

Give them a practical exam.

[TomS]

Give them a practical exam.

That would work.

[guyser]

Give them a practical exam.

Did you not mean "proctological" exam wilber ?

[M.Dancer]

Give them a practical exam.

[normanchateau]

there may soon be a flood of illegal immigrants using this back door as a means to enter Canada that they wouldn't have been able to use otherwise.

Back door?