Blair Mulling Ways to Close Loophole in Safe Third Country Agreement

U.S. Border Patrol agents search a vehicle that was sent to secondary inspection at a highway checkpoint in West Enfield, Maine on Aug. 1, 2018 . Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Border Security Minister Bill Blair says he is talking to lawmakers in the United States about closing a loophole in Canada’s border agreement with the U.S.—one seen as giving asylum-seekers reason to cross into Canada through fields and forests.