A provision in this year’s omnibus budget bill would prevent anyone who has made a refugee claim in certain other countries from making another claim in Canada
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is taking steps to stem the tide of asylum seekers who’ve been crossing into Canada from the U.S. at unofficial border crossings.
Only a handful of countries qualify. The United States, through which all of the irregular border crossers pass, is one of them. People deemed ineligible to make a claim in Canada will not necessarily be deported to their homelands. Genest said they will still undergo a pre-removal risk assessment to determine if it is safe to send them back to their countries of origin.
That has prompted thousands of people who fear deportation from the United States to cross the Canadian border through fields and forests.
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