Law Works: Country Agreement

law works: We just want to help in the best way we can, said first-year law student Uttra Gautam, one of the organizers of Saturday's event in Ottawa, according to Metro News. The students were trying to find legal arguments to oppose a Canada-U.S. policy called the Safe Third Country Agreement. There's been a huge sentiment of people being outaged, but wanting to turn outrage into action. The policy prevents people from claiming refugee status on the land border between Canada and the United States. Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, many refugees are required to ask for protection in the first country they arrive in. The law works on the assumption that the United States is a safe country for refugees, but some refugee advocates say this is no longer the case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.