20-06-2018 17:07 via montrealgazette.com

U.S. child-detention policy could drive more asylum seekers to Canada

The scenes from the southern U.S. border are heartbreaking: Inconsolable toddlers crying for their mamis and papis; mothers told their children are going to be bathed, only to realize they’ve been taken away indefinitely; parents deported without their sons and daughters.
It seems a long way to the border of Mexico. But the new U.S. policy to separate children from their parents in immigration detention may soon be felt on the border with Canada as well, with greater numbers of asylum seek
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