Canada and the United States are negotiating a deal that could see asylum seekers turned back at irregular border crossings across the border, including Roxham Road in Quebec.
A Canadian government official with knowledge of the talks says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden will discuss the issue when they meet in Ottawa on Friday.Such a deal would not physically close off the Roxham Road unofficial crossing in Quebec, where thousands of migrants have entered Canada so they can make an asylum claim.
A potential renegotiated deal would reimagine all 8,900 kilometres of the shared border as an official crossing under the Safe Third Country Agreement, the official said. "We're seeing an increase in irregular migration going north into Canada, which reflects the regional and global migration challenges we have been talking about," Jean-Pierre said Thursday.
"It'll just push people to more remote areas, more dangerous crossings," said Julia Sand, a lawyer for the organization. The federal government began transferring asylum claimants to various cities in Ontario, including Niagara Falls, after the Quebec government voiced concerns the migrants were placing pressure on publicly funded services.
At a press conference Wednesday, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser would only say his department was working on a solution that would go beyond the politics of the president's visit and "provide an actual lasting solution" to irregular border crossings.
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