Advocates concerned about unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Canada
FROM LEADERPOST.COM
Immigration lawyer Alastair Clarke calls it a “travesty of justice.”
In Buffalo, N.Y., a client is currently living in a shelter, desperately awaiting news about how she might be reunited with her three young children, all under the age of 10.
The woman fled the small East-African country of Burundi with her kids and landed in the United States with a visitor’s visa, hopeful they could all eventually claim asylum in Canada, where her sister-in-law is a permanent resident, living in Winnipeg.
But when they did attempt to cross the border by bus it became clear another difficult journey was ahead.
