Calls to end US-Canada asylum pact grow louder FMTNews FMTWorld
Critics say the policy separates families and pushes immigrants to cross the border via deadly informal routes.
Protesters presented a petition to public safety minister Marco Mendicino, whose ministry is responsible for border patrol and policing in Canada. STCA, which took effect in 2004, aimed to control the migration of asylum seekers. Under the original agreement, asylum seekers trying to cross from the US into Canada or vice versa at formal border crossings are turned back and told to apply for asylum in the first “safe” country they arrived in.
A total of eight people from two families died last week trying to enter the US from Canada by boat across the St Lawrence River near Akwesasne, Quebec.
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