FIRST READING: How claiming to be a refugee became a get-out-of-jail-free card

For a foreign national facing law enforcement scrutiny, claiming asylum instantly halts the investigation in its tracks ...

How Canada’s refugee system has changed since 2015

A decade after Ottawa did much to help resettle displaced Syrians, refugees and advocates say wait times have lengthened, ...
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More US Citizens Applying For Refugee Status In Canada, Shows Data

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 ...
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Public Support for Immigrants and Refugees in Canada Rallied

In a time of rising anti-immigrant sentiment and divisive rhetoric among some leaders, today, the Canadian Council for Refugees along with unions, NGOs and human rights organizations across Canada, ...

Extortion suspects have claimed refugee status, Canada’s border agency says

Canada’s plan to expel those behind B.C.’s extortion epidemic has hit a roadblock after every single suspect sent for a ...
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Jan. 6 fugitive from Indiana seeking asylum in Canada

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Jan. 6 riot defendant from Indiana who escaped his prison sentence is applying for refugee status in Canada. Antony Vo in November told I-Team 8 he still believes ...
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More Americans applying for refugee status in Canada, data shows

TORONTO (Reuters) -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 ...