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Locked down and left out? Why access to basic services for migrants is critical to our COVID-19 response and recovery
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New report: Migrants hit an “invisible wall” in accessing COVID-19 care and vaccines
Geneva, 9 March 2021 – A new report released today documents an “invisible wall” which has blocked migrants from accessing basic services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now preventing them from accessing vaccines.
The report –
Locked down and left out? Why access to basic services for migrants is critical to our COVID-19 response and recovery – draws on research carried out across all regions by the newly established Red Cross Red Crescent Global Migration Lab, hosted by Australian Red Cross and supported by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
File Photo / Zach Hirsch
Earlier this year, a man from Tanzania tried to seek asylum in Canada by crossing the border at Roxham Road, north of Champlain, NY. However, unlike thousands of others who had crossed in previous years, he was turned back to the U.S. under new pandemic-related border restrictions.
Canadian police gave him a piece of paper saying to come back when the border reopened, but returned him to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who detained him over lack of authorization to be in the United States. He was transferred to the federal immigration detention facility in Batavia, when he reached Jennifer Connor, executive director of Justice for Migrant Families in Buffalo.
The number of asylum seekers stranded at the border after trying to reach Canada has overwhelmed the resources of volunteers who used to hand out snacks and warm clothing at the end of Roxham Road. Photo: Elizabeth Hewitt
Dec 30, 2020 When Canada and the U.S. restricted travel across the border this spring, Canada also began turning back asylum seekers who tried to cross from the United States into Canada on foot, many of them at a dead-end road in northern Clinton County.
Yesterday, NCPR reported that some of those asylum-seekers Canadian police have returned to US border officers have ended up in U.S. immigration detention facilities, and even deported to the country they were fleeing. Those border agents have chosen to release others.