Ottawa has reached a last-minute deal with Israel to suspend the deportation of asylum-seekers who currently are waiting for resettlement to Canada. Israel is set to begin deporting some 37,000 asylum-seekers, the majority of them Sudanese and Eritreans, in April after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government issued them expulsion notices. The Canadian government is under the gun to resettle 1,845 of the African refugees whose sponsorship applications are currently in process, some for years. “Canada does not support policies of mass deportations of asylum-seekers. “The alliance is still concerned for the welfare of those at risk of deportation in Israel who do not have applications currently in process.

Source: thestar February 24, 2018 22:18 UTC