‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention
Key takeaways
- Prefer the Guardian on GoogleAs each day in US detention passes, Markens Appolon can feel the life he had dreamed of slipping away.
- The 25-year-old fled Haiti to escape the rampant gang violence that upended his university studies in economics, and planned to join family in Montreal.
- But for the last four and a half months, Appolon has been incarcerated in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
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The US and Canadian flags fly near the Bluewater Bridge border crossing between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan Photograph: Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen The US and Canadian flags fly near the Bluewater Bridge border crossing between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan Photograph: Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images Canada‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they were turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims
Prefer the Guardian on GoogleAs each day in US detention passes, Markens Appolon can feel the life he had dreamed of slipping away.
The 25-year-old fled Haiti to escape the rampant gang violence that upended his university studies in economics, and planned to join family in Montreal.