Travis Lupick interviewed me for the LA Review of Books. He did a great job.
Month: March 2020
U.S. to return Canada-bound asylum seekers stopped at border to home nations
By Anna Mehler Paperny, Reuters
After years of asylum-seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border illegally to file refugee claims, Canada is turning them around and sending them back to the United States, which says it plans to send them swiftly back to their countries of origin.
Canada lawyers, prosecutors scramble to get inmates out of jail
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Tessa Vikander, Reuters
Canadian lawyers and government prosecutors are joining forces to get people out of provincial jails by accelerating bail hearings amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak in the close quarters.
Canada’s First Nations close borders over coronavirus, using ‘isolation as a strength’
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Kelsey Johnson, Reuters
Canadian indigenous communities, already facing poor healthcare options, are closing their own lands’ borders to limit coronavirus exposure as Ottawa dispatches funds and tents to house and isolate sick patients in the country’s chilly north.
U.N. refugee agency to suspend resettlements because of coronavirus
By Emma Farge and Anna Mehler Paperny, Reuters
The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) and International Organization for Migration will temporarily suspend sending refugees on to resettle in new permanent homes abroad because of travel disruptions caused by the coronavirus, the agency said Tuesday.
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