The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 10, 2019, 12:02:06 pm
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Canadian Conservatives seek to stop inflow of migrants from U.S.
Published:
Wed, Oct 9th 2019 @ 5:03 pm EDT
Canada's Conservative Party pledged today to renegotiate the terms of a deal with the United States to limit migrants who cross from the U.S. into Canada, but it offered few details on how it would do so. Under the current terms of a 2002 agreement, Canada and the U.S. can send back migrants who attempt to enter one country from the other. But the agreement applies only at regular border checkpoints.
Although Canada has a relatively open immigration policy, the issue has become politically fraught in recent years as thousands of people have entered Canada seeking asylum without going through the checkpoints on roads, airports or other standard entry points.
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/canadian-conservatives-seek-stop-inflow-migrants-us (https://www.numbersusa.com/news/canadian-conservatives-seek-stop-inflow-migrants-us)