The recent expansion of the Safe Third Country Agreement — which started as a 9/11 era deal that Canada negotiated in order to exert more control over immigration levels — prohibits asylum seekers from entering at unofficial ports of entry.
The agreement allows Canada to share responsibility for asylum seekers with the US, because the US is “safe” for refugees.
But there are years of documented evidence suggesting the US is not actually safe, including two Supreme Court rulings, reports from international human rights organizations, and data on the detainment and deportation of asylum seekers.
So why have we ignored it?
Host: Jesse Brown
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