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A growing source of Canadian asylum-seekers: US citizens whose parents were born elsewhere

  • Written by Sean Rehaag, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
A growing source of Canadian asylum-seekers: US citizens whose parents were born elsewhere

Jokes about moving to Canada became common among progressives in the United States during Donald Trump’s presidential bid. When he won, a spike in U.S. citizens seeking information about how to relocate crashed Canada’s immigration website.

I’m a scholar of Canadian immigration law and will soon become the director of the Centre...

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