If Canada and the U.S. can\u0027t co\u002Doperate effectively on Nexus, how will they ever address Roxham Road?
The only explanation on offer, which the government has not disputed, is that Ottawa doesn’t want to extend a sort of diplomatic immunity that U.S. border guards enjoy in airport pre-clearance facilities beyond such facilities, to off-site Nexus offices. But that’s no explanation at all. Having declared sections of Canadian airports de-facto U.S.
The fact such a simple matter of mutual benefit should prove so difficult to hammer out between Ottawa and Washington does not bode well for a much more serious border issue: The thousands of asylum-seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border “irregularly” every month at Roxham Road, from New York State into Quebec.the Roxham situation
Still, when Conservative MP Richard Martel recently refused to help a Salvadoran mother and son avoid deportation because they were “illegal refugees,” having crossed via Roxham Road, even the avowedly anti-Roxham Bloc Québécois joined the chorus of critics. Bloc MP Mario Simard intervened on the family’s behalf.Article content
Refugee advocates support scrapping the Safe Third Country Agreement, under which most asylum-seekers presenting themselves at official land border crossings will be sent back to the United States to make their claims. That has utilitarian logic as well as humanitarian: If people are going to come anyway, and we’re going to give them a shot at staying, why would we force them to scramble through the woods? It just makes everyone’s lives more difficult.
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