the supreme court of Canada hold a hearing to make sure the United States is a safe place for immigrants seeking to enter as refugees. The outcome of this situation could change the 2004 pact, which allows refugees to seek protection from the first “safe” state they arrive in, after escaping the complex conditions in which they left their countries of origin.
Several social groups and lawyers specializing in the matter claim that immigrants ranging from Canada in the United States they run great risks, such as being imprisoned in detention centers, in cold temperatures or even going into solitary confinement. Also, underline that a modification of this pact could modify future cases of “irregularities” in the crossing of borders, which this year reached a new record.
Since its inception, this measure has been viewed with disfavour by specialists. Indeed, in 2005, a judge ordered the closure of the “Safe Third Country Pact” because the government of Canada it failed consistently to verify that conditions in the neighboring country were safe for asylum seekers.
With the coming to power of Donald Trump (in 2017), who had promised in his campaign to take severe measures against immigrants, several protesters have started a legal movement with which they have denounced that the United States government is held locked up in detention centers and without access to a lawyer, to people crossing the border.
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“We are very pleased that the Supreme Court has agreed to look into the case.”said Peter Noteboom, general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, one of the organizations involved in this problem. Several people who have filed this lawsuit claim that it violates “freedom and security” because it allows to the Canadian government deny access to the country to refugees who have been granted asylum in the United States and who could end up in detention centers.
The Government referred to this: “The evidence shows that continuing the designation of our neighboring country is still reasonable. ”All of this, despite not publicly sharing information that supports that phrase.
