Sen. Rick Scott urges Trump to pave pathway for Canadian Jews to emigrate to U.S.

Sen. Rick Scott urges Trump to pave pathway for Canadian Jews to emigrate to U.S.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is urging President Donald Trump to establish an expedited legal pathway for Jewish Canadians to obtain refugee status in the United States amid rising antisemitism in Canada.  In a letter to the president on Tuesday, Scott encouraged Trump to set up a refugee program for Canadian Jews to legally seek refuge...

Andrew Bennett: Trump’s consideration of pathway for Canadian Jews fleeing hate shames us all

Marches in the streets, harassment on campus, arson, attacks on businesses and violent assaults. These are what we have enabled through our silence on antisemitism. Silence and inaction feeds the antisemitism that infects Canadian urban life, enabling it to fester and infect the body politic. The silence is undergirded by the often not-so-quietly held, deeply […]