I would say two things: 1) you're wrong and 2) it's irrelevant to the point I was making.  

The DoJ (now run by the one and only Jeff Sessions), the State Department, and the US Citizen and Immigration Services evaluate claims for asylum, interpreting the rules of an international treaty on asylum seekers the US signed years ago.

But that's irrelevant if the Trump admin can draft an exec order to ban individuals from the seven Muslim countries, that survives legal challenge.  Even if it is eventually struck down by the courts, many asylum seekers could be sent packing in the mean time.

Where did you learn that many had been denied their claims under the Obama admin?  Just curious.  If that's the case, then their claims in Canada could be denied too.  
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