Ottawa Rejects US Senators’ Security Concerns Over Gazan Refugees Crossing Canada–US Border

Ottawa is refuting concerns expressed by a group of U.S. senators about Gaza refugees crossing the Canadian border into the United States. Several Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expressing their concern over the security of the country’s border with Canada. “Canada allowing Gazan refugees with potential terrorist ties into their country poses a national security threat to the U.S. northern border,” Sen. Rubio, one of the signatories, said in a July 24 post on the platform X. Beside Sen. Rubio, the letter was signed by Sens. Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Mike Braun, Joni Ernst, and Josh Hawley....