Feds partly responsible for treatment of asylum seekers turned back at Canadian-U.S. border, say refugee advocates

'We should be weary of using a crisis like this to turn our back on our human rights obligations,' says University of Ottawa law professor Jamie Chai Yun Liew.

Before the federal government reversed its position, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured on the Hill on March 18, 2020, said asylum seekers would be allowed to make refugee claims even as non-essential travel to Canada was barred. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

April 6, 2020

As Canada is turning back asylum seekers who cross its southern border, refugee advocates say the federal government has a shared responsibility for how those hopeful refugee applicants are treated by the United States. Canada and the United States jointly agreed to rebuff asylum seekers crossing t...

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