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Canadian immigration law

A mother and son embrace in a library.

For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban, this border library offers brief moments of reunion

Immigration

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the US-Canada border as a historical anomaly and thrust into an unlikely role as the site of emotional reunions between people separated by the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

A man and a child peer out a window of a building. Next to them is a road sign that says "road closed"

Refugees asking for asylum in Canada argue the US is no longer safe

Immigration
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