I suspect the omission is  because they did not want that to deter from the tone of the article, or the direction they were trying to take the reader.

"Canada refuses admission to refugee claimants that bypass 11 other "safe" countries" isn't quite the controversy needed for a story, or to rouse up  indignation for a cause.

To me it  seems like a deliberate omission,  and if it was just poor reporting, an editor should have caught it.