Normally asylum seeking is a bad thing, because it entails an economic refugee (often a welfare colonist) pretending to be oppressed in his own country so as to evade immigration law. But kooky kayaker Dan Livers’s bid for asylum has made America a better place:

Livers told the Star that he set out from Michigan on Aug. 5, in a kayak he bought for $25 on Facebook Marketplace, paddled across the international border and landed at a spot in the Town of LaSalle, about 12 kilometres south of the Ambassador Bridge.

LaSalle is in Canada, where Livers will hopefully stay.

Livers, who has been granted temporary refugee status in Windsor, said he fled the U.S. fearing retaliation after criticizing a Michigan non-profit connected to state service dog programs.

You never know, Trump might have sicced the National Guard on him. Livers yelps that he was afraid for his life.

He has jumped aboard a fad among moonbats:

In the first six months of 2025, more Americans sought refugee status in Canada than during all of 2024…

Liberal unwillingness to respect the will of voters might have something to do with it.

Unfortunately, Canada rarely accepts these refugees — despite allowing the native population to be washed away in a tsunami of immigrants from less successful parts of the world.

However,

It could take months, even years, before Livers learns whether his asylum bid will succeed, as Ottawa works through a backlog of refugee claims.

In the meantime, he has been staying at the Downtown Mission — Canada’s burden rather than ours.

On a tip from seaoh.