There is a challenge, but it is not a crisis. In fact, the government departments that have been charged with responsibility for dealing with this—from the senior management in those departments and the ministerial level right down to the officers in the field who carry the practical day-to-day responsibility for administering the law—have done a very strong job in making sure that every Canadian law is fully enforced, and it is, and that every Canadian obligation in the international arena under the United Nations is fully honoured, and that is being done. We have accomplished those imperatives in each and every case, and we have received a very strong commendation for how we are handling this from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been very clear and strong in its praise for the CBSA officers, the RCMP officers, and the employees of IRCC who have dealt with the human reality of the flow across the border and have done so in a way that is safe and secure, and at the same time humane.
On July 24th, 2018. See this statement in context.