A federal judge has denied three U.S. citizens refugee status in Canada in a case that spent six years on appeal.
“There is a heavy burden on a party who is attempting to rebut the presumption the United States is capable of protecting them,” Justice Ann Marie McDonald of the Federal Court wrote in documents obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Protection offered by a state need only be adequate and does not have to be perfect.”
A federal appeal board had previously granted refugee status to a mother and two children, all U.S. citizens from Michigan, who arrived in Ontario in 2016….