As the administration of President Trump is seeking to stanch the flow of refugees into the United States, Canada has taken the opposite approach. More than 2,000 Burundian refugees have arrived in the United States in the past two and a half years, according to the State Department. Asked why she had sought asylum in Canada and not the United States, she paused and took a deep breath. Most of the Burundians in Canada came in the 1990s, fleeing ethnic massacres between Hutus and Tutsis that spilled over from the genocide in Rwanda. PhotoOne of the men got an American visa to attend college in the United States, but said he had no intention of attending.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2017 11:22 UTC