Volume 4:2 ✦ Articles The Level of Severity Needed for Humanitarian Asylum: A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Immigration Laws Vol. 4 No. 2 ✦ May 2018 ✦ What is humanitarian asylum? This principle emerged as a way to prevent victims who suffered severe persecution while living in their home country from being forced to return. International law reasons that even if … Marcy J. Robles Download PDF