Official Border: Country Agreement and Refugee Claim

official border: The tactic is a way to avoid the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which prevents most people who have been living in the United States from making a refugee claim at an official border crossing on the premise they are already somewhere safe, according to National Observer. By crossing illegally, they're able to make that claim in Canada. In recent weeks, more and more people have flowed illegally across the border into Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump moves to crack down on illegal immigration and imposes new restrictions on refugees. In some cases, these people have family or friends in the community in Montreal, in other cases they'll head to Toronto or they'll go to organizations that deal with asylum-seekers like the YMCA, said Montreal immigration lawyer Stephane Handfield. There's no doubt it's touching, so we try to make their misery as short as possible, RCMP Staff Sgt. Federal authorities first take them to a Canada Border Services Agency building in nearby Lacolle, Que., where they are processed and can file a refugee claim. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.