As I was saying, Amnesty International stated this clearly in their letter, which continues:
Most directly, crucial principles with respect to non-discrimination, non-refoulement, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, fair trials and the rights of children have already been infringed.
We are strongly of the view that in this context Canada cannot wait to see how things continue to develop in the days and weeks to come.
While the original discriminatory executive orders that the letter responded to were struck down by the courts, Amnesty had the foresight to know it was unlikely that those would be the only attempts the Trump administration would pursue. At the time, they stated, “There is every reason to believe that there may be further changes, including through additional Executive Orders.”
We know that some of the original discriminatory executive orders have remained in force. We know that additional anti-immigrant executive orders have been signed, and we know that an additional travel ban had been attempted. Over that period, we also know that irregular border crossings from the United States into Canada have sharply increased. Amnesty International took an observational fact-finding mission at the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba.