Skip to content
LPBN-Icon-v1
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network

Report on the Implementation of the U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement

By immigrationprof

The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, the Harvard Human Rights Program, and Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights have released a report on the implementation of the U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA). Under the STCA, Canada and the United States recognize each other as safe third countries for refugee claimants, and each country is permitted to return to the other country individuals who have traveled through that other country, with few exceptions. According to the study’s findings, the STCA not only fails to accomplish its stated goal of securing the border, but indeed makes the border less secure, endangering the lives of refugee claimants and threatening the security of the United States and Canada.

The full study and a press release are available for download at the addresses below. (My e-mail may insert a line break in the middle of the first two addresses–if you have problems, please follow the third link to our homepage, where the study and press release are prominently posted.)

STCA Report:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/asylum_law/Harvard_STCA_Report.pdf

Press release:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/asylum_law/STCAPressRelease.pdf

HIRC home page:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/asylum_law/

KJ