Canada’s Tightening Immigration Policy May Be Felt in U.S.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Canada’s Conservative government has begun instituting more stringent immigration enforcement, stepping up efforts to track down and deport thousands of asylum-seekers whose applications have been denied.Immigration analysts warn that the United States could become a new destination for these asylum applicants soon to be pushed out of Canada.U.S. officials say that asylum claimants who are denied refugee protection in Canada will not be automatically turned away at the U.S. border, despite a 2004 agreement between the countries that bars new arrivals in either from entering the other to claim asylum.U.S. officials say they do not anticipate a massive increase in the number of those seeking to cross the border through legal channels. They expect that Canada will allow some failed applicants to stay under other exemptions and will deport as many as possible of those deemed not at risk of persecution in their home countries.
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