Country Agreement: Ndp and Border Arrests

country agreement: But data obtained Tuesday by The Canadian Press shows people are still being granted asylum under the much-maligned Safe Third Country Agreement, long blamed for driving the number of border arrests to record highs, according to The Chronicle Herald. When U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban was first announced, while the NDP called for action, the prime minister tweeted, 'Hashtag Welcome To Canada,' said NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan. Among other things, both the Conservatives and the NDP urged the government to examine the Canada-U.S. border, where upwards of 3,000 people have been arrested since January crossing between legal points of entry in order to claim asylum. We have recently learned that a 57-year-old woman lost her life attempting to cross the border into Manitoba. The Safe Third Country Agreement prohibits people from making an asylum claim at the U.S.-Canada land border, on the basis that those in need of protection must make the claim in the first safe country they arrive in. If the prime minister's hopeful words were matched with real action such as suspending the Safe Third Country Agreement, a life might have been saved. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.