An immigration legal counselor in Halifax says her office has been getting an ever increasing number of calls from Americans and individuals in the U.S. searching alternatives to move out.

A few of them work on both sides of the outskirt by ethicalness of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an understanding President Donald Trump has said he will renegotiate.

“That makes individuals uneasy,” Liz Wozniak told Global News Thursday.

She said there is worry about whether individuals with current work visas will lose their visas or face various troubles.

Just a single week into Trump’s administration, Wozniak said it might be too early for individuals to begin considering moving.

“Now we’re telling those individuals for the most part, stay put, you’re not a refugee to Canada yet,” Wozniak said.

She included that her office has additionally handled calls from individuals having a place with religious minorities, and additionally individuals from the LGBTQ people group.

“[The order] entirely reflects our Canadian rundown of bans on evacuation nations,” Wozniak said. “So where they’re restricting section to the U.S. for those particular nations, we’re restricting the expulsion of individuals to those nations because there’s a helpful emergency occurring over there.”

A few people regularly get into the U.S. with a visa before heading into Canada to seek refugee protection, Janet Dench, official chief of the Canadian Council for Refugees, told Global News.

“Some of them are at danger of life and appendage due to conditions crossing in the winter,” Dench said.

Dench added that individuals need to sneak in light of the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which can require inquirers at the fringe to demand insurance in what is viewed as the main “safe” nation they touch base in.

She said there are likewise an expected 11 million individuals living without citizenship status in the U.S., a number that could change contingent upon Trump’s new strategies.

“So if just a little extent of those chooses they have to look for assurance in Canada, then that could have a major effect as far as cases in Canada,” Dench said.

The Minister of Canada’s immigration Ahmed Hussen said in a meeting he wouldn’t “prejudge the United States organization” as far as their approaches, however he said immigration for Canada is something they esteem.

“We esteem workers as driving our financial development and, in the meantime, being interested in the idea of giving haven and asylum to the individuals who look for insurance,” Hussen said.

While Canada holds up to perceive how the U.S’s. new arrangements affect immigration and different issues, Wozniak says the change could bring about a purported “cerebrum pick up.”

“I think this could be a better than average thing for Canada,” Wozniak said. “Canada’s sort of a signal of security and soundness and insurance of human rights, regard for individuals of every single diverse stroll of life, so I think this could be great.

“Not really for the correct reasons but rather I believe it’s possibly a positive for Canada in the event that we can increase some accomplished contributing subjects, incredible.”