'Complicit with a totalitarian regime': Canada's border rules are landing asylum seekers in ICE detention

[Swede]

Wake up Ottawa!


Canadian authorities have returned more than 1,600 asylum seekers to the United States in 2025 without hearing their case for refugee protection, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Many have landed in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
The removals are a product of the longstanding Safe Third Country Agreement, which requires anyone seeking refugee protection in Canada or the U.S. to claim asylum in the first of the two countries they reach. This means many asylum seekers who attempt to enter Canada through the U.S. are turned back at the border.
The agreement is based on the assumption both the U.S. and Canada have sufficiently robust refugee protection systems.

Read more at: https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article975299.html#storylink=cpy

[EllieBC]

1. Immigration has become a hot button issue up here.

It’s most of what made Trudeau unpopular, even amongst Liberal Party voters because of the high amount of TFW visas (which end up overstayed) and the diploma mill situation.

Quebec has put into place many policies to severely reduce their intake: https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-planning-to-welcome-fewer-immigrants-per-year/

The huge amount of immigrants that have come in along with the no extra funding to infrastructure has made Canadians pretty unfriendly toward immigration.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. They are following the law

It’s a bad law, but one that Canada and the US agreed to.

Ignoring the law would be a step towards an authoritarian state in Canada.

Until the law is changed or the treaty repealed, that is what the Canada border staff are obliged to do.

[AloeVera]

3. I don't think the law per se is bad, but the assumption on which it's based -

...that both countries have a robust refugee protection system - is no longer valid. Whether it will be amended or terminated is uncertain - as someone else said, many Canadians now have a less tolerant view towards immigrants and refugees due to some abuses of our generous system. So perhaps the invalid assumption applies to both countries though of course to the US to a far greater degree. I hope we never have our own ICE.

[Justice matters.]

4. It's also because both Provincial & Federal governments neglected...

social housing projects (you can't live on the streets 12 months a year in Canada) and as a result, costs of rent went skyrocketing (supply and demand crisis) for the average working class families.

[AloeVera]

5. True... so short-sighted.

It really is bad for working families.