U.S. and Canada expected to reveal deal on turning away asylum-seekers
Biden and Trudeau are expected to announce a deal allowing both the countries to turn away asylum-seekers who cross their borders without authorization.
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are expected to announce an agreement Friday that would allow the U.S. and Canada to turn away asylum-seekers who cross their borders without authorization, two U.S. officials confirmed.
The agreement is likely to follow an extensive bilateral meeting in Ottawa, where migration will be a main topic of conversation between the two heads of state.
The deal, reported earlier Thursday by the Los Angeles Times, would apply to people without U.S. or Canadian citizenship caught within 14 days of crossing the U.S.-Canada border.
Canada will also commit to take in an additional 15,000 migrants next year from the Western Hemisphere on a humanitarian basis, a U.S. official said.
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