More Americans applied for refugee status in Canada in the first half of 2025 than in all of 2024, and more than in any full year since 2019, according to data published on Thursday by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.
Their share of total refugee claims – 245 of about 55,000 – is small and Canada’s acceptance of U.S. refugee claims has historically been low. Asylum-seekers from other countries crossing the land border from the U.S. are sent back under a bilateral agreement with the reasoning that they should apply for asylum in the first “safe” country they arrived in.
I did, I had been for years, and y’know what all I have to show for it is I’m more likely than ever to get killed in the streets for being trans. Fuck that I’m aging and can’t be fighting forever; what good would another dead trans be. I’ve fucked off to Europe and once I stabilize here I’ll help others do the same. The US can burn I didn’t choose to be born there and I’ve never considered it my home