Justin Trudeau needs to stop stalling on Roxham Road
that city officials in New York were buying bus tickets for asylum seekers who wanted to head north to the Canadian border and make a refugee claim at Roxham Road.
The Trudeau government insists it wants to close this loophole through negotiations with its American counterpart. In the past five years, though – during which the Mounties have intercepted more than 100,000 people on Roxham Road – there’s been no progress toward that goal.and economic migrants bussed to his city by cynical southern Republican governors, is actively making the situation worse?
Clearly, the two countries have different agendas. Roxham Road is a case in point; that well-trod pavement runs in just one direction. As such, it is hard to imagine what interest the Americans might have in hurriedly renegotiating an agreement that, in its current form, allows for a northern overflow valve for vulnerable people treated in an increasingly callous fashion by U.S. politicians.
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