Canada Sees Sixfold Increase In U.S. Residents Seeking Asylum
(WorldNews Canada)

In 2017, some 2,550 United States citizens applied for asylum in Canada - an increase of more than sixfold from 2016 and the largest such number since at least 1994, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, The Guardian reports. Americans were the third largest contingent of asylum seekers in 2017, after Haitians and Nigerians. The vast majority are children born to Haitian parents, according to experts. `Most of the Americans applying for refugee status are the children of non-residents,` says Stéphane Handfield, a Montreal-based immigration lawyer. `They are U.S. citizens because they were born there, but they come across the border with their parents because...