‘Like a criminal’: Canada-U.S. asylum agreement has a human cost, refugee says

The U.S. 'is not a safe country for refugees,’ says a woman who Canada turned away because she entered the U.S. first. Her case helped convince a Federal Court judge the SCTA should end, a ruling the feds are appealing.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured outside a Liberal cabinet meeting in January, says the recent ruling striking down the Safe Third Country Agreement is being challenged by the feds to make clear the legal framework governing asylum law.
Five years ago, a woman fled her home in central Africa, arrived in the United States, and days later headed for the Canadian border to seek asylum. A political activist who’d witnessed election fraud, she feared for her life after the militia killed her cousin and a...

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