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Lead lawyer at online law firm E-Wiselaw in Manitoba and Ontario, Constant Kouassi, says since Donald Trump’s first election the numbers on LGBTQ+ immigration applications were between 500 and 600 people, much lower as asylum seekers.PHOTO : Associated Press / Julia Demaree Nikhinson
Following his swearing in, American President Donald Trump modifies the rules surrounding transgender people in addition to modifying the right to asylum and land law. Immigration experts fear these measures will cause an influx to Canada. The principal lawyer of the online legal firm E-Wiselaw in Manitoba and Ontario, Constant Kouassi, elaborates.
According to him, the change in soil law for foreign children born in the United States would mean that they would not automatically have the right to nationality, a situation which could create a debate going all the way to the American Supreme Court.
-« The Trump administration questions these people and considers that a person illegally in the territory is not under American jurisdiction, therefore his descendants could not be entitled to nationality. This thesis is opposed by those who consider that people born on American territory should not be attached to the nationality of their parents. »
The case of LGBTQ+ people is also tacit according to the lawyer, who adds that significant immigration to Canada is not excluded.
There are those people who could say: “I live today in a state where the values developed are no longer in line with mine, so I am moving to a different location.” We can fear an outbreak of people who will come, because their rights are better defended [ici]
he said.
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