Canadian Officials: Immigration and Country Agreement

canadian officials: They're urging Canadian officials to temporarily suspend the so-called safe third country agreement until everyone can fully understand how all of Trump's orders will affect people seeking protection, according to Guelph Mercury. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen had already indicated the agreement would remain untouched as Canada monitored the impact of Trump's moves suspending immigration from seven countries for 90 days and all refugee resettlement for 120 days. But immigration advocates say the new U.S. president has signed more than one border-related executive order in recent weeks that has put the asylum system in jeopardy. A statement from Hussen's department late Wednesday, however, spelled out the government's rationale in the face of pressure from advocates and opposition parliamentarians for a policy response to the U.S. travel ban. Caron said the agreement is focused on how to handle people who show up at either land border to make asylum claims, not the resettled refugees covered by Trump's edict. Our government has no indication that the executive order has any impact on the American asylum system, said the statement from spokesperson Nancy Caron. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.