Refugee advocates ‘shocked and dismayed’ over asylum changes in Ottawa’s budget bill

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Refugee experts cry foul over asylum changes

A family from Haiti approach a tent in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, stationed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as they haul their luggage down Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., on August 7, 2017.Refugee advocates are crying foul over proposed Liberal government changes to immigration laws that aim to keep would-be asylum seekers from entering Canada at unofficial border crossings.

The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers says the changes would rob vulnerable refugee claimants of fundamental human-rights protections. The Liberals are proposing to prevent asylum seekers from making a refugee claim in Canada if they have made a similar claim in certain other countries, including the United States.The changes were quietly included in a 392-page omnibus budget bill tabled Monday in the House of Commons – a move that is even more upsetting to refugee advocates.

Janet Dench, executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, says substantial changes to immigration laws like the ones being proposed ought to be given a full hearing in Parliament, rather than being slipped into a fast-tracked budget bill. Dench says her members – including more than 100 Canadian organizations that work directly with refugees and immigrants – are in a state of shock and dismay over the proposed changes, calling them a devastating attack on refugee rights in Canada.

 

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I was under the impression everything was super duper at the border

It’s called accountability, and they don’t like it.

They are just concerned about their bank accounts given human smuggling is so profitable these days

MHGA

If it wants cooperation with the USA on the economic fronts, Zoolander JustinTrudeau Mary Poppings cafreeland and the rest of the unicorn SJW Liberal Losers better smarten up on it's borders.

Of course they are. The cash cow has been taken away.

OMG guys, Canada might start enforcing it's border laws!

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