Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will send migrants seeking asylum at the border back to the United States.
An influx of asylum seekers crossing at the US-Canada border has become a hot button political issue in recent years, and has intensified over coronavirus concerns.
About 16,000 migrants crossed irregularly at the US border seeking refugee status in Canada in 2019, mostly in Quebec. Asylum seekers are typically given housing and certain social services while they wait for their claim to be evaluated.
But the spread of Covid-19 has raised new concerns. Earlier this week, Mr Trudeau said asylum seekers would be held in quarantine but on Friday he said Canada and the US had reached an agreement that irregular border crossers would be sent back.
On Wednesday, Mr Trudeau announced that he and US President Donald Trump had agreed to close the US-Canada border to all non-essential travel in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus.
