Things Are Becoming "Normal", Canada's Illegal Border Crossings Are "Officially" Open Again

 https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/first-reading-at-least-the-illegal-border-is-open-again

"...While Canada’s legal border crossings remain a quagmire of weird and contradictory COVID-19 restrictions, the process is much smoother at Canada’s most popular illegal border crossing, which officially reopened this week. Under Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States, refugee claimants are denied entry to Canada if they try to cross from the United States — the reasoning being that they’re already in a “safe country.” Since 2017, however, thousands of people have sidestepped this measure by first illegally crossing into Canada and then making their refugee claim within Canadian borders. One of the most well-trafficked of these crossings, Roxham Road, reopened this week after it was shut down in early 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns. (A note on terminology: It is indeed illegal to enter Canada at Roxham Road, but the infraction is waived if it eventually turns out that the crosser is a legitimate refugee, which is why the Immigration and Refugee Board refers to Roxham Road entries as “irregular” border crossings.)..."