Asylum seekers turned away at Canadian border largely face detention, U.S. border agency says

Asylum seekers rebuffed at the Canadian border and returned to the United States are increasingly being detained there, a shift in policy that critics say calls into question the Safe Third Country Agreement, a long-standing bilateral treaty premised on both countries being safe for refugee claimants.In a statement to The Globe and Mail, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that it is now the organization’s policy to place asylum seekers and migrants redirected from Canada into custody and transfer them to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility for removal from the country.