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Asylum seekers who illegally crossed the U.S. border into Canada this year
are obtaining refugee status at higher rates, new data shows, as authorities
accept claims from people who say they feared being deported by U.S.
President Donald Trump‘s administration.
More than 15,000 people have crossed the U.S.-Canadian border illegally to
claim refugee status in Canada this year. Many were in the United States
legally and some interviewed by Reuters said they might have stayed were it
not for an immigration crackdown.
READ MORE: Big drop in number of asylum seekers illegally crossing into
Canada in September
The influx, mainly at the Quebec/New York border, prompted the military to
set up a temporary tent encampment in Quebec and sparked a backlash from
anti-migrant groups.
Lawyers who have handled dozens of cases said that members of refugee
tribunals, who evaluate requests for asylum, have grown more sympathetic
toward people who have spent time in the United States and who say they now
fear immigration policies under Trump.
Trump took office in January with a goal of sharply cutting refugee
admissions, in line with the hard-line immigration policies that were a
focal point of the Republican’s 2016 election campaign.
WATCH: Border officials brace for another spike in asylum seekers crossing
into Canada
Of the 592 claims from border crossers finalized between March and September
, 69 percent – or 408 in total – were accepted, according to Immigration
and Refugee Board figures. An additional 92 appeals of rejected claims are
pending.
That 69 percent acceptance rate is higher than the acceptance rate for all
refugee claims from people who came to Canada through any method last year.
In a January asylum hearing whose transcript was seen by Reuters, a tribunal
member told a Syrian refugee claimant and her daughter who had crossed near
Lacolle, Quebec, that their explanation for not staying in the United
States was “reasonable,” citing the woman’s worries about the new U.S.
government.
“Certainly, that seems to be playing out as you have feared, and today on
the news I know that President Trump has suspended the Syrian refugee
program,” the member is quoted as saying. “You have provided, in my view,
a reasonable explanation of your failure to claim in the U.S.”
A second refugee decision reviewed by Reuters, issued in May, cites an Iraqi
woman’s detention in a U.S. airport and subsequent racist incidents she
said she experienced at school as credible reasons for her leaving the
United States. |
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