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Roxham Road is now closed. Advocates call the move ‘rushed,’ ‘inhumane’

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The closure of the Roxham Road crossing at the Canada-U.S. border was “rushed” and will only further endanger the lives of asylum seekers, immigration advocates say.

The border rule change went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, closing the small and unofficial crossing separating Quebec and New York, where tens of thousands of asylum seekers have entered Canada irregularly in the past few years.

The deal was announced just hours earlier on Friday during U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Ottawa and was was described as a “supplement” to the 2004 treaty known as the Safe Third Country Agreement.

Under the treaty, both Canada and the U.S. recognize each other as “safe” countries for asylum claimants, meaning individuals must make their claim at the first official border crossing they come to in either country.

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