Canada Immigrants. Image credit: Wkimedia Commons
Washington/CMEDIA: A political problem for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, might be solved by closing the world’s longest international border to migrants traversing the U.S. in order to claim asylum in Canada, but it was claimed by immigration advocates that in the meantime it will only endanger lives, media reports said.
Friday’s agreement between Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden, which actually dates to April 2022 involved a global approach to surging migration is by widening legal pathways and cutting off the irregular migrations
But making it harder than ever for migrants to claim asylum will only encourage them to undertake ever more dangerous journeys.
Biden and Trudeau have agreed to a supplement to the 2004 treaty known as the Safe Third Country Agreement, which governs asylum claims by migrants crossing the Canada-U.S. border.
According to a draft order posted Friday on the U.S. Federal Register, the two countries have already agreed to the new protocol requiring amendments to existing U.S. regulations, .
Migrants have been flooding Roxham Road in recent years with over 39,000 asylum claims having been filed in 2022 by people who were intercepted by the RCMP, the vast majority of them in Quebec.
Canada has agreed as part of the deal to welcome an additional 15,000 migrants from across the Western Hemisphere this year.
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