In a statement, Canadian opposition lawmaker Jenny Kwan of the New Democratic Party called the decision an important victory for the rights of asylum seekers.
An email sent to the U.S. State Department in Washington seeking comment was not immediately returned. “It certainly is a broad criticism of the U.S. policy of detention of asylum-seekers,” Theresa Brown, now director of immigration and cross border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, said in a Wednesday email.
Many of those migrants who came to the U.S. from across the globe – Syria, Congo, Haiti and elsewhere – would travel to upstate New York and then go to Roxham Road in the town of Champlain, a backroad that dead-ends at the border. There they walked across, were arrested and usually released, hoping Canadian policies would give them the security they believe the political climate in the United States does not.
Good job setting an example Canada
Third Country Asylum through legal border entry. Also, must have been citizen of the US or else it is not a third country agreement. Can we report this correctly please.
Now ain’t that something. USA is unsafe for the most vulnerable. How the night has fallen.
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