Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

In the pre-COVID era, Canadians and Americans enjoyed a relatively open border. Over the years, the ease with which residents of each country could travel cleared the way for the formation of binational families, in which one partner was born and raised in Canada and the other in the U.S. The spirit of family reunification is at the core of border regulation in Canada, but the pandemic has unquestionably lessened the ease with which the border can be crossed, which impacts binational families.

https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/how-the-closed-canada-u-s-border-affects-binational-families/wcm/63486847-1809-4f0f-b9e0-40ed64890956/

Ils ont fui la guerre et les représailles parce qu’ils étaient homosexuels. Ils ont traversé le Moyen-Orient et trouvé refuge au Canada, mais ils n’ont jamais perdu leur identité. Raphaël Machalani et Galilio Aissami ont aujourd’hui posé leurs bagages à Vancouver où leur boutique de mode reflète qui ils sont, d’où ils viennent et ce qu’ils veulent apporter aux Canadiens.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1718182/refugies-raphael-malachani-galilio-aissami-mawlana-covid

Offrir des légumes frais et locaux à des familles de réfugiés : c’est la mission que s’est donnée la Ferme La Dérive de Rimouski. L’initiative, mise en place en collaboration avec Accueil et Intégration Bas-Saint-Laurent, permettra non seulement de fournir en aliments frais une trentaine d’adultes et enfants originaires d’Afrique et d’Amérique du Sud, mais aussi de leur offrir découvertes et échanges autour de l’agriculture locale.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1719035/aibsl-immigrants-ferme-derive-agriculture-integration-produits-locaux

Smail Khaniche is one of thousands of visitors turned away by Canada annually but he did something few would do. Told to “get the hell back to your country,” the Algerian man instead challenged the border agent in court — and won. “What happened to me is inhumane and I ask that justice be served,” said the 41-year-old railroad mechanic, who was sent straight back home from Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Nov. 2, 2018.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/07/10/a-canadian-border-agent-told-him-to-get-the-hell-back-to-your-country-instead-this-algerian-went-to-court-and-won.html

President Donald Trump said Friday he would seek sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy through an executive order, suggesting he might create a “road to citizenship” for certain migrants brought to the country illegally as children and shift the criteria for new arrivals to a “merit-based” system. The new effort will be unveiled “over the next four weeks,” Trump said in an interview with Telemundo.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-11/trump-vows-to-sign-executive-order-to-change-immigration-laws

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has charged two people in separate immigration investigations in Winnipeg, alleging they took advantage of immigrants for financial gain. The CBSA charged Chinenye (Victor) Alozie, 33, and Zhihao Jia, 26, with multiple offences, alleging they collected fees as unauthorized immigration consultants and counselled clients to misrepresent their situations on immigration applications.

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/immigration-fraud-charges-laid-following-two-investigations-in-winnipeg-cbsa-1.5019152