Emergency Hearing: Commission and Muslim-Majority Countries

emergency hearing: Tuesday's hearing by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was prompted by the requests from advocacy groups in Canada and the United States to review what they called ongoing and deteriorating conditions faced by asylum-seekers and other migrants under the Trump administration, according to Toronto Star. These groups have asked the commission to make findings that Trump's travel ban against six Muslim-majority countries, which has been temporarily blocked by judges, and his expansion of detention and deportation against migrants violate U.S. human rights obligations. Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., March 20, 2017 A pan-American commission will hold an emergency hearing in Washington to investigate the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders on human rights in the country. Some of the groups hope the human rights body will rule the U.S. is not safe for refugees and recommend the suspension of the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which restricts asylum-seekers to filing claims in the country of their arrival. Article Continued Below The commission is part of the Organization of American States, made up of 35 countries, with a mission to promote and protect human rights in the American hemisphere. The expedited removals and expansion of detention under the orders are going to have profound implications on the U.S. asylum system, said Efrat Arbel, a University of British Columbia law professor who co-authored, with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, a recent review of Trump's executive orders. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.