{UAH} A record number of US citizens are seeking asylum in Canada
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A group of asylum seekers wait to be processed after being escorted from their tent encampment to the Canada Border Services in Lacolle, Quebec, Canada August 11, 2017.Reuters- A record number of US citizens applied for asylum status in Canada in 2017.
- Canadian government data from the Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship department show they received 2,550 applications for asylum in 2017. That's six times more than the country received in 2016.
- US citizens were third on the list of total asylum applications, after Haitians and Nigerians.
- These Americans are not fleeing war, violence, or persecution like typical asylum-seekers are. Rather, experts say the bulk of these American asylum-seekers are actually the children of unauthorized immigrants living in the US.
- The unauthorized immigrants fear being deported by the Trump administration, and so they are seeking asylum in Canada and bringing their US citizen children with them, one Canadian immigration lawyer told The Guardian.
A record number of US citizens applied for asylum in Canada during 2017, the most since 1994.
A total of 2,550 US citizens applied for asylum Canada in 2017 - six times more than in 2016, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada cited by The Guardian.
That's the largest number of applications Canada has ever received from American citizens since the dataset started reporting the numbers in 1994, they said.
But these Americans are not fleeing war, violence, or persecution like typical asylum-seekers are. Rather, experts say the bulk of these American asylum-seekers are actually the US-born children of unauthorized immigrants living in the US.
Since everyone born on US soil is automatically an American citizen - a process known as birthright citizenship - the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration has triggered a dilemma for so-called mixed status families, where some members are Americans and some are unauthorized immigrants.
Those unauthorized immigrants fear being deported by the Trump administration, and so they are seeking asylum in Canada and bringing their US citizen children with them, one Montreal-based immigration lawyer told The Guardian.
"Most of the Americans applying for refugee status are the children of non-residents," Stéphane Handfield told The Guardian. "They are US citizens because they were born there, but they come across the border with their parents because they don't want to be separated."
US citizens made up the third-largest group of asylum-seekers in the 2017 dataset, after Haitians and Nigerians, the Guardian reported.
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