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A Quebec association of immigration lawyers is calling upon Canada to withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement in the wake of a series of immigration orders issued by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Among the executive orders issued last weekend by Trump is a 90-day ban on entry to the U.S. to those leaving seven majority Muslim countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. A U.S. federal court in the district of New York has meanwhile issued a stay on any deportations caused by the order, citing the risk of legal prejudice for those effected by it.

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The Safe Third Country Agreement, signed between Canada and the U.S., stipulates that anyone seeking refugee status must do so in the first country they entered.

Jean-Sébastien Boudreault, president of the Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l’immigration, said on Monday that someone seeking refugee status and coming from the U.S. could not seek asylum at the Canadian border except under certain conditions, the most notable being having family members in this country.