Advocates say their issuance to the asylum seekers amounts to an admission that the border restrictions aren’t being implemented the way Canada said they would be. Days after Webster received word of the exemptions for five of the six asylum seekers she knew about, her phone rang. Canada said in March that it would screen and quarantine asylum seekers who entered at unofficial crossings. Since the border was closed, Canada has directed 226 of them back to the United States, according to Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Rebecca Purdy. pending his removal.”The exemptions won’t allow the asylum seekers to bypass Canada’s quarantine rules or its asylum process.

Source: Washington Post December 29, 2020 10:52 UTC