'Stripping these human rights protections from refugee claimants is callous, but doing so through an undemocratic process is even worse,' said Maureen Silcoff, who serves as litigation committee chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.
Canadian immigration advocates have hit out at the Trudeau government over plans to change the country's laws to make it more difficult for asylum seekers rejected in the U.S. and other countries to file refugee claims at the border.
Currently, under Canada's"Safe Third Country Agreement" with the U.S., any asylum seekers who arrive at official border crossings from the U.S. will be turned back under the understanding that they have already arrived in a"safe country." The same applies to asylum seekers who approach the U.S. border from Canada.
The surge in arrivals at the Canadian border comes amid the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, with President Donald Trump repeatedly threatening to shut down U.S. entry points altogether in a bid to deter growing numbers of asylum seekers, including many families, from making their way to the U.S.
"There's a right way to come to the country to seek asylum and/or to seek to immigrate to this country, and we're trying to encourage people to use the appropriate channels and to disincentivize people from doing it improperly," he said. “Stripping these human rights protections from refugee claimants is callous, but doing so through an undemocratic process is even worse," Maureen Silcoff, who serves as litigation committee chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, said in a statement released on Tuesday.
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