The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of a Canada-U.S. immigration deal that turns back most would-be asylum seekers at the international border.
In a unanimous decision, the country’s top court ruled Friday that the Safe Third Country Agreement does not
"While the record shows that returnees face a risk of detention in the United States, it also discloses mechanisms that create opportunities for release and provide for review by administrative decision makers and courts. There is no basis to infer that these arrangements are fundamentally unfair. Thus, the risk of detention that returnees face is not overbroad."
In the landmark ruling, the top court dismissed an appeal brought by eight individuals from El Salvador, Syria and Ethiopia who were backed by refugee advocacy groups like the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Canadian Council of Churches and Amnesty International.he Canadian government’s position that the 2004 Safe Third Country Agreement is constitutional, and provides protections for individuals’ legal rights, and authority to deal with exceptional circumstances.
In what many saw as a loophole, the deal originally did not apply at unofficial crossings, like Roxham Road near Lacolle, Quebec leading thousands, especially during the Donald Trump years, to use irregular border points to enter Canada to apply for protection.
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