Refugee Clinic: The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press: The report by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, obtained by The Canadian Press, accuses Ottawa of making it so difficult for refugees to claim asylum that its pushing them into the hands of human smugglers, a state of affairs that sometimes puts lives at risk, according to The Star. The Harvard report also shows Canada and the U.S. are failing to meet their obligations to asylum-seekers under international and domestic laws, said Efrat Arbel, one of the reports authors and OTTAWA A new Harvard Law School study paints a scathing portrait of Canada as a country thats increasingly slamming its doors on asylum-seekers and thereby unwittingly contributing to the human smuggling crisis. The exhaustive 107-page study, entitled Bordering on Failure, found that some asylum-seekers have drowned attempting to swim across the Niagara River to Canada. One man lost both legs while trying to cross a railway bridge into Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.