US and Canada strike deal to divert asylum seekers at border.
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The US and Canada are expected to announce a deal to apply the terms of an existing "safe third country agreement" to asylum-seekers who cross between ports of entry. The agreement means people have to apply for asylum in the first safe countries they arrive at, with exceptions. Illegal crossings into the US from Canada have climbed to historically high levels, with about 2,000 migrants apprehended crossing the border illegally in the Swanton Sector of the US border from Oct. 1 to Feb. 28, compared to just 200 in the same period the previous year.
Topics:nation#asylum-seekers#border-control#illegal-crossings#immigration#safe-third-country-agreement#us-canada
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