TORONTO -- Canada's pandemic-era policy of turning back asylum-seekers trying to enter between official border crossings is unlawful and violates their rights, a legal action filed on Tuesday alleges.
It is the first legal action against this policy since it was instituted in response to COVID-19 in March 2020.Between March 21, 2020, and April 20, 2021, Canada turned back 387 asylum-seekers trying to cross between ports of entry, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. But the United States deported at least one asylum-seeker turned back under this policy, according to the man's lawyer and correspondence seen by Reuters. Others were held in a detention center.
Burundian Apollinaire Nduwimana tried to cross into Canada in October at Roxham Road, which has become a common destination for asylum-seekers avoiding the Safe Third Country Agreement . According to his lawyers, U.S. authorities tried multiple times to deport him to Burundi, to which Canada has deferred deportations for reasons of humanitarian crisis.
Let’s just open up Canada’s borders and let in anyone who wants to come to canada!
I told the media, the rich that God made me give the key to Hell to China before the pandemic. I told the rich to help the poor among other things. You seem to think I'm an idiot. We'll see if I am one.