Closing Roxham Road: what migrants face at the border

Guest: Christina Clark-Kazak, associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

In the aftermath of U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Canada, changes were made to the Safe Third Country Agreement, a key immigration policy to close a loophole that enabled migrants to claim asylum in the U.S. or Canada through unofficial ports of entry. After Roxham Road acted as unofficial route into Quebec for over 40,000 migrants last year, the route is now closed and experts fear this will only drive people to take more dangerous paths.

This episode was produced by Alexis Green, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar.

Audio source: CBC and CTV