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Right, but under the Agreement, their claim is almost certain to be rejected. Sure, they’ll have a safe place to stay while it’s being processed, but they’re not likely to get a permanent place.
That’s why they’re having this debate to re-evaluate the merit of the entire agreement, because clearly, the United States is no longer a citizen state of the world and cannot be treated accordingly.
Here, since apparently no one but me has a functional Google on their computer:
The Third Safe Country Agreement:
Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, persons seeking refugee protection must make a claim in the first country they arrive in (United States or Canada), unless they qualify for an exception to the Agreement. Therefore, refugee claimants arriving from the United States at the Canada–United States land border can only pursue their refugee claims in Canada if they meet an exception under the Safe Third Country Agreement.
So all those people must now prove that they meet an exception, and so far, Canada has not allowed for it. (Bolded emphasis mine.) As I understand it, the fact that these people fled before actually having their claim rejected, as the rejection would have included detaining them, under current interpretation means they are currently not even eligible to make a claim in Canada.
If you continue reading that Wikipedia page, conveniently enough, it goes into a great deal more detail about the impact of the recent US Executive Orders and the ongoing debate. The original post urges Canadians to contact their reps about the ongoing debate; I can’t find a source for that post’s claim that there’s some kind of decision coming up, but it is certainly not inappropriate for Canadians to contact their representatives.
Please, do read up on it, it’s important.
Right, but under the Agreement, their claim is almost certain to be rejected. Sure, they’ll have a safe place to stay while it’s being processed, but they’re not likely to get a permanent place.
That’s why they’re having this debate to re-evaluate the merit of the entire agreement, because clearly, the United States is no longer a citizen state of the world and cannot be treated accordingly.
Here, since apparently no one but me has a functional Google on their computer:
The Third Safe Country Agreement:
Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, persons seeking refugee protection must make a claim in the first country they arrive in (United States or Canada), unless they qualify for an exception to the Agreement. Therefore, refugee claimants arriving from the United States at the Canada–United States land border can only pursue their refugee claims in Canada if they meet an exception under the Safe Third Country Agreement.
So all those people must now prove that they meet an exception, and so far, Canada has not allowed for it. (Bolded emphasis mine.) As I understand it, the fact that these people fled before actually having their claim rejected, as the rejection would have included detaining them, under current interpretation means they are currently not even eligible to make a claim in Canada.
If you continue reading that Wikipedia page, conveniently enough, it goes into a great deal more detail about the impact of the recent US Executive Orders and the ongoing debate. The original post urges Canadians to contact their reps about the ongoing debate; I can’t find a source for that post’s claim that there’s some kind of decision coming up, but it is certainly not inappropriate for Canadians to contact their representatives.
Please, do read up on it, it’s important.
