Quebec border sees asylum claims double between March and April

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 07, 2025 2:53 PM EDT | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

Asylum claims doubled astatine a Quebec borderline crossing successful April arsenic the Trump medication seeks to portion ineligible protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants.

The Canada Border Services Agency says determination were 2,733 asylum claims successful April astatine the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle larboard of entry, southbound of Montreal, up from 1,356 claims successful March and 755 successful February.

That's a fourfold summation implicit the aforesaid play past year, erstwhile determination were 670 asylum claims astatine the Quebec borderline crossing successful April.

The dependable summation coincides with U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to revoke impermanent protected presumption for 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians surviving successful the United States.

But the wide fig of asylum claims crossed Canada truthful acold this twelvemonth has dropped by fractional compared to the aforesaid clip past year, and the borderline bureau says it has accrued removals of radical who are inadmissible to Canada.

Asylum seekers coming from the U.S. tin lone marque claims successful Canada if they conscionable definite exceptions to the Safe Third Country Agreement, and the bureau says it has returned 1,439 claimants to the U.S. truthful acold this year.