Ahmed Hussen at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On May 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.

May 29th, 2018 / 12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Ahmed Hussen Liberal York South—Weston, ON

The fact of the matter is that asylum claimants are processed by the independent, quasi-judicial Immigration and Refugee Board. It's an entirely separate process from all the other streams of immigration. Overseas refugees, economic immigrants, as well as family-class immigrants are all processed by IRCC. In those categories, we've made a lot of progress in bringing down processing times, eliminating—

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