"The U.S. is not a safe country": Canadian advocates want to end a policy that turns asylum-seekers back to U.S

They really aren't though. The "liberal" left in this country is trying to defy basic economics, and they are advocating things that sound nice but are actually reducing personal freedoms and property rights. That's why I put "liberal" in quotes... because it's not liberal by-and-large - their stance on the war on drugs is the only clearly liberal policy I can think of. Even the position on abortion (I can hear the downvotes now... just to be clear I am personally strongly pro-choice) is not a truly liberal policy: it pits the rights of one group of individuals and states against the rights of other individuals - it's better described as a progressive policy, which is by definition prescriptive and imposes more regulation/requirements rather than less. This is pretty consistent across the board, that in the US "liberals" are actually more accurately described as "progressives", and the entire underpinning of progressivism is that it imposes more requirements on individuals, states, businesses, etc to force them to conform to certain behaviors that are viewed as "progressive", and that comes with a necessary erosion of individual freedoms and property rights.

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