Canada case poses question: Is U.S. immigration system safe?
1 / 7Asylum US CanadaIn this Nov. 4, 2019, photo, a family from Nigeria waits to illegally cross the U.S. border at Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., into Canada where Royal Canadian Mounted Police wait, in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec. Since early 2017, when people who despaired of finding a permanent safe haven in the United States began turning to Canada for help, around 50,000 people have illegally entered Canada, many through Roxham Road in upstate New York.
Tens of thousands have made the same north-bound trek since early 2017, when people who despaired of finding a permanent safe haven in the United States under new restrictive Trump administration policies began turning to Canada for help. Over a six-hour span on Monday, this family, another group from Nigeria, a man from Syria, another from Haiti and a family who wouldn't say where they were from all crossed at the same illegal entry point at Roxham Road, about 30 miles south of Montreal.
Now, a legal case being heard in Toronto federal court this week is challenging that 2002 U.S.-Canadian agreement, which the Trump administration has sought to replicate to stem the flow of migrants at the United States' southern border, striking similar pacts with the governments of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The agreements have also created strange bedfellows in Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who have repeatedly clashed. The two leaders both want to keep the U.S.-Canada asylum agreement intact. Among them was Kikome Afisa, who said her own experience as an asylum seeker compelled her to speak out.
According to Canadian government statistics, since early 2017 through June nearly 50,000 people have applied for asylum after crossing into the country illegally. Most of those irregular border crossers entered Canada at Roxham Road.
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