Talk:Roxham Road

Lisée and the fence

I am Lisée and I strongly object to the mischaracterisation of my position in this wikipedia entry. As seen in this accurate report https://globalnews.ca/news/4168099/pq-leader-jean-francois-lisee-wants-to-build-a-fence-near-quebec-new-york-border/ I said that, once asylum seekers will be allowed to come through regular border points, we should put a fence and a sign to tell would-be seekers to go the the regular crossing, which would be more respectful for all. the author of the wiki entry erred in omitting this essential fact. please correct and come back to me at jflisee@gmail.com

Parti Quebecois (PQ) Leader Jean-François Lisée said he wants a fence built near a Quebec-New York border crossing that is popular with asylum seekers.

Lisee said the fence should go up at Roxham Road in Hemmingford, near the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing. He told reporters in Quebec City on Wednesday that Canada should rip up the safe third-party agreement and asylum seekers should be directed to legal border crossings.

When asked who would pay for the fence, Lisee joked, “the Mexicans.” He later said that the barrier he was proposing would not be a Trump-like wall. It could be just a cedar hedge. “We cannot close Roxham Road unless and until [asylum seekers] have the ability to come through the regular postings. That’s what we’ve been asking for for a year. Amnesty International is [also] asking that,” Lisée said. Jflisee (talk) 05:16, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, the source was RCI, so blame them for the actual omission—as the primary contributor to the article, I only wrote what the source said. But thanks for the clarification, and I will add the additional material in a day or so (I hope). Daniel Case (talk) 07:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

This article is way too long

There's a lot of useful information here but it's spread across an article that few will take the time to read entirely. See WP:LENGTH. Areas for judicious pruning include:

• Trivia, e.g. "The speed limit increases to 70 km/h (43 mph)".
• Statements by politicians years ago in the context of electioneering and other details which though newsworthy at a given time and context is now excessive per WP:NOTNEWS.
• Info that duplicates Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement, Illegal immigration to Canada, Canadian immigration and refugee law, and others.

Cornellier (talk) 16:24, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Update to reflect new agreement by U.S+Canada

With the latest agreement, thats should be added to the pages, and(if this article actually exists) put a link i see also to a article about the U.S Canada border(or illegal crossing of said border) 24.13.4.148 (talk) 00:11, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

I have been planning to do that here; the article you're thinking of is linked multiply from this one: Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement, which has already been updated. Daniel Case (talk) 03:06, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Local Support section biased

This section of the article is written with a very slanted perspective of the illegal immigration occurring over Roxham Road, citing opinion pieces and making assumptions about “local support” while only providing narrow sources. If this section is to exist, I would like a revision to include cited surveys or polls regarding the affect of these illegal immigrants and to have the biased inputs of editors who support or disagree with the illegal immigration updated accordingly. Shotstopper33 (talk) 00:58, 17 June 2023 (UTC)