The United States Is No Longer Safe for Everyone. Canada Must Act.
Across the United States, trans and queer people, racialized communities, women, political dissidents, and people of Latin American and Mexican descent are facing escalating threats to their freedom, safety, and lives. These are not isolated incidents—they are the result of a systemic shift toward authoritarianism, criminalization, and state-sanctioned violence.
Parents are being arrested at work. Children are being deported from foster care. People are being prosecuted for miscarriages, forced to detransition, stripped of citizenship, and confined in modern-day concentration camps.
America has fallen into crisis. And Canada has shut the door.
Under the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), most people fleeing the United States are automatically turned away—denied the right to apply for asylum, even when their lives are in danger. This policy violates both Canadian and international law, and it betrays the values of dignity, equity, and justice that Canada claims to uphold.
We Must Not Be Complicit.
We’re calling on Canadians to raise their voices in urgent solidarity by sending letters to:
- Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister
- Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
- Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- David McGuinty, Minister of National Defence
- Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General
- Marc Miller, Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
Our Demands Are Clear:
Canada must suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement and create an emergency protection stream for U.S. residents fleeing political repression and identity-based violence.