There has been no specific policy change, but some see Trump\u2019s influence in the increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the period between October 2018 and September 2019, US border officials issued expedited removals\u2014associated with a minimum five-year ban\u2014to 616 travellers entering the US by land from Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The figures, provided by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), amount to an almost 100% increase compared to the previous 12-month period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The rise in expedited removals\u2014those issued without a hearing\u2014comes as no surprise to some immigration lawyers, who told CBC News that cases that used to result in a simple denied entry can now lead to a five-year ban.<\/span><\/p>\n “If they just think you’re being sneaky, that’s all it takes,” Vancouver-based immigration lawyer Andrew Hayes told the outlet. “The benefit of the doubt is not being afforded to people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n CBP offered no explanation for the surge in removals, telling CBC News there have been no recent policy changes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yet a number of lawyers told CBC they believe US President Donald Trump’s tougher stance on immigration may be influencing border officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “He gives the officers more comfort in issuing expedited removals, that they’ll at least be backed up by the US government,” said immigration lawyer Len Saunders.<\/span><\/p>\n Canadian residents made 25 million round-trips by vehicle to the US from January to September 2019, a decrease of 3.6% from the same period in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n CBP wouldn’t comment directly on specific cases documented by CBC. It said that border officers make decisions on a case-by-case basis given the evidence available at the time. Non-US citizens “bear the burden of proof” to show that they’re eligible to enter the country, spokesperson Stephanie Malin told the Canadian outlet in an email.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has been no specific policy change, but some see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":24040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[529,99,1385,3032,95,3026,336],"class_list":["post-24041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-canada","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-passport","tag-travel","tag-travel-bans","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24048,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/24048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}