Globe editorial: The right move to fix the border, but what took so long? GlobeDebate
After two years of largely avoiding the issue, Ottawa says it is finally working with the U.S. government to close the loophole in an immigration treaty between the two countries that is at the heart of Canada’s long-running surge in irregular border crossings.
In 2017, the RCMP intercepted more than 20,000 irregular crossers at an unauthorized entry point near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que. Virtually all of them were allowed to make refugee claims, because Canada is obliged to give them that chance under both international treaties and a 1985 Supreme Court ruling.
That lives up to the spirit of the STCA. It makes the agreement workable while still protecting refugee claimants who meet the exceptions set out in it, such as unaccompanied minors and those whose family members living in Canada have refugee status, or pending claims, or are legal residents. As well, a larger-than-usual number of the claimants were being rejected, suggesting that a significant proportion of them were economic migrants trying their luck in the refugee system.
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