The government has dispatched ministers and senior officials to countries that were the source of the influx, including Haiti and Nigeria. They sent Haitian-born MP Emmanuel Dubourg to Miami with a message for would-be asylum-seekers from Haiti, Africa and Central America — there are laws in this country and they may be sent back. At issue is a loophole in a Canada-U.S. agreement that compels asylum-seekers to make that application in the first country in which they arrived. Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel has kept the heat on the government, demanding it close the “loophole” in the Safe Third Country agreement. But government inaction and off-loading has created a problem larger than the numbers of those who would seek a new life here.

Source: thestar May 24, 2018 20:26 UTC