Federal Court of Appeal overturns Safe Third Country ruling
Federal Court of Appeal overturns Safe Third Country ruling April 16, 2021 For the foreseeable future, asylum seekers at official Canada-U.S. border crossings will be turned back to try their luck in the U.S. On April 15 the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that declared the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States unconstitutional. The appeal court faulted the lower court’s ruling that safeguards against arbitrary and hasty decisions by Canada Border Services agents were not practically available and that the U.S. inland refugee determination sy...
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