OTTAWA - Refugee advocacy groups are asking the federal immigration minister to make an exemption in the Safe Third Country Agreement for transgender refugee claimants in the United States to
Gauri Sreenivasan, co-executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, said the orders will harm transgender people who are seeking to make an asylum claim in the United States.
Under Trump’s policies for example, a transgender woman could be placed in a detention facility with male detainees.
That obviously puts trans asylum seekers at risk of violence.
If they break the law. So Transgender criminals. We don’t see yet people being put in jail for being transgender. If that is happening then yes we can revisit the question but it is not happening.
So harming criminals is okay, got it. Shall we reinstate the age-old tradition of cutting off thieves’ hands? And you haven’t even addressed the difference between being charged with a crime and being convicted, both of which can land you in jail.
That obviously puts trans asylum seekers at risk of violence.
If they break the law. So Transgender criminals. We don’t see yet people being put in jail for being transgender. If that is happening then yes we can revisit the question but it is not happening.
So harming criminals is okay, got it. Shall we reinstate the age-old tradition of cutting off thieves’ hands? And you haven’t even addressed the difference between being charged with a crime and being convicted, both of which can land you in jail.
What are you talking about? What I quoted was about transgender asylum seekers. Seeking asylum isn’t a crime.