CBC:
Uptick of Canadians hit with 5-year bans at U.S. borders called a 'troubling trend'
'It's very, very indiscriminate how they are doing this,' says U.S. immigration lawyer
Cathy Kearney, Clare Hennig · CBC News · Posted: Sep 28, 2019
If you are thinking about driving across a U.S. border any time soon take note — immigration lawyers in British Columbia and Washington State are seeing an increase in travellers being issued five-year bans from U.S. border guards.
The bans are the consequence of so-called "expedited removals" which are decided by an immigration officer and don't go before a judge, and are a "troubling trend" according to lawyer Len Saunders because of how arbitrary they can seem.
"Until recently, I never would have expected people to get these expedited removals so randomly," said Saunders, who practices immigration law in Blaine, Wash. and has clients who have been banned.
Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/increase-bans-canada-us-border-1.5300708
There are a lot of things going on in immigration law enforcement that I'm certainly unaware of. This is another instance.
