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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I have NO empathy for these people, none whatsoever.
They are in a safe country where they can claim refugee status...
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True, that's the entire point.
Have we witnessed cases yet of Syrian refugees from the past year crossing illegally into the U.S. from Canada claiming Canada doesn't qualify anymore as safe under the STCA? (They could show there's a chance they'll get killed based on their faith.) If so, how are they processed? Does the argument actually work?
Personally, I don't think any court or government would ever accept to lower the bar for what constitutes "safety" to such an extreme level. By these standards, no place will ever be safe, so there are no safe third countries anymore.