More Americans applied for refugee status in Canada in the first half of 2025 than in all of 2024, and more than in any full year since 2019, according to data published on Thursday by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.

Their share of total refugee claims – 245 of about 55,000 – is small and Canada’s acceptance of U.S. refugee claims has historically been low. Asylum-seekers from other countries crossing the land border from the U.S. are sent back under a bilateral agreement with the reasoning that they should apply for asylum in the first “safe” country they arrived in.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    The problem is our distance between each other. Organization is extremely difficult without setting off flags from surveillance.

    Because of that you have cells of like…5 people trying to take aggressive action and that just doesn’t work.