New Canadian Procedures For Asylum Seekers at Border?

Canada is considering a new law governing the rights of asylum seekers on the nation’s borders.

An amendment was added to a pending omnibus budget bill that would “allow immigration officers at the border to reject refugee claims if the asylum seeker has already made a claim in another country that has an immigration information-sharing agreement with Canada,”  the BBC reports. Those information-sharing countries would be the US, UK, Australia & New Zealand.

The new rules would eliminate entitlement “to an oral hearing and the claim could not be appealed to an independent tribunal. Instead, denied claimants would have the right to submit a written, pre-removal risk assessment, which lawyer Kevin Wiener says has about a 3% success rate.”

-KitJ