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More Haitians will try to come to Canada after U.S. court decision, advocate says
The ruling could send more Haitians north, and advocates say hundreds of thousands now face detention or deportation in the United States.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling allowing the Department of Homeland Security to terminate Temporary Protected Status for about 35,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, with implementation expected near the end of July.
- Congress established TPS in 1990 for humanitarian relief following conflicts and disasters, with Haiti receiving designation after the devastating 2010 earthquake. DHS General Counsel James Percival defended the termination, saying the program was "always supposed to be temporary and can be cancelled at the appropriate time."
- Advocate Danielle Wainwright warned that TPS recipients have spent decades building lives in the U.S. with "nothing to go to" in Haiti, while Portland attorney Russell Ford cautioned the decision will "take away a larger portion of the labor pool than I think the administration realizes."
- Following the decision, Montreal-based advocate Frantz André of the Comite d'action des persons sans statut reported a new wave of Haitian migrants traveling from the U.S. toward Canada, with some able to file asylum claims while others face potential detention and deportation.
- Demographic experts at the Brookings Institution and the Cato Institute warn that reduced immigration could accelerate population decline, while the administration continues efforts to restrict immigration, describing foreign migrants as a social burden rather than an economic asset.
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More Haitians will try to come to Canada after U.S. court decision, advocate says
MONTREAL - A Montreal-based advocate for asylum seekers says Canada should expect a new wave of Haitians trying to enter from the United States after a court decision allowing the
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By Morgan Lowrie Canada must expect an increase in Haitian and Syrian asylum seekers from the border with the United States, according to groups that come to the aid of asylum seekers. Frantz André, spokesman for the Action Committee of Unstatus Persons (CAPSS), in Montreal, said to make this observation since the US justice allowed the Trump administration to put an end to the legal protections granted to migrants fleeing violence and natural d…
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