Should Chris Krebs seek asylum?
If you are Chris Krebs and this week Bukele refuses to return Abrego Garcia and the Supreme Court decides to let Trump get away with it . . .
Would you stay in America? Or would you flee the country for your safety?
Let’s pretend, for a second, that you chose to leave. You show up at the Canadian border and file a claim of political asylum, alleging that you are fleeing political persecution in America and have reason to believe that remaining in your homeland would lead to indefinite imprisonment in a Salvadoran concentration camp.
What would the Canadian legal system make of such a claim?
Would they say that this was outlandish and unfounded?
Or would they believe it to be an accurate depiction of what America has become?
What Canada should do might differ from what it thinks it can afford to do. On the other hand, Canada might just want to be at the cutting edge of America’s certification as a pariah state.
Too many angles to figure.