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La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.
CBC – New Temporary Foreign Worker Penalties Concern Some P.E.I. Businesses
Stiff new penalties for those who abuse the federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program are a concern for some in P.E.I. The changes were announced by the federal government last week. The strictest penalties include a lifetime ban from the program and fines of up to $100,000 for each violation and up to one million dollars a year. […] That will hurt small business, says Erin McGrath-Gaudet, P.E.I. director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. “For a small business owner to go to that length and to that cost is serious,” said McGrath-Gaudet. “So we would like to see government institute a more informal appeals process or an administrative appeals process internally before going to that level of needing to go to the court system.” P.E.I. businesses are still struggling to find workers after other recent changes to the program, including a stipulation that temporary foreign workers could only make up 30 per cent of total staff. Also, many temporary workers who had worked in Canada since April 1, 2011 saw their visas expire earlier this year.
Montreal Gazette – Immigration Board Eases Conditions for Deepan Budlakoti, Stateless Man with Weapons and Drug Convictions
Deepan Budlakoti, 25, still represents a flight risk and a danger to society, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada member Francois Milo said Friday. “The danger ground for detention has lessened through the passage of time and because of Mr. Budlakoti’s good conduct, compared to that of his troubled youth and early adulthood,” Milo said in Montreal. […] Canada has an active deportation order against him but cannot make him leave because he has nowhere to go. India has refused to allow him to enter the country because it does not recognize him as a citizen, according to court documents. […] The appeals court ruled that Budlakoti is not legally a “stateless person” as he claims, because he has not officially applied for citizenship in either Canada or India. Budlakoti says he has begun proceedings to have the Supreme Court hear his challenge of the appeals court ruling. Since being freed from detention in 2013, Budlakoti has received support from human rights organizations, public-sector unions and members of the public who say his legal limbo is unfair and violates his freedoms. […] Budlakoti says he made mistakes when he was younger but is rehabilitated.
CBC – Deepan Budlakoti Gets Conditions Eased by Immigration Board
A man who has no citizenship from any country and who was convicted on drug and weapons offences had his release conditions eased Friday due to good behaviour and the fact more than two years have passed since he was freed. Deepan Budlakoti, 25, still represents a flight risk and a danger to society, however, said Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada member Francois Milo. “The danger ground for detention has lessened through the passage of time and because of Mr. Budlakoti’s good conduct, compared to that of his troubled youth and early adulthood,” Milo said in Montreal. Budlakoti will now have to report to the Canada Border Services Agency only every six months instead of every three. And Milo said the condition that Budlakoti must keep the peace is too vague. It was changed so the Ottawa native must now report to border officials within 48 hours of any arrest, accusation or conviction. Budlakoti was born in Canada to Indian nationals working for Indian High Commission officials and was not given automatic citizenship. He became a permanent resident in 1992 but was stripped of that status after he was convicted of trafficking weapons and drugs.
The Guardian – US Border Patrol Violated Agency Rules in Deporting Thousands of Children
US border patrol agents violated agency rules in deporting thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children from 2009 to 2014, according to a federal audit released this week. The US Government Accountability Office audit said that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) repatriated 93% of unaccompanied children under age 14 from Mexico and Canada without documenting how they decided that the children would be safe when they return to their home countries. Jennifer Podkul, a senior program officer for the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission, is one of several people to have questioned how effective the CBP process is in earlier reports. “The part that is illegal is not that they have not been giving them documentation, the part that’s illegal is that they have not been adequately screening them according to the law,” Podkul said. The GAO report was released on Tuesday, the same day that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said it had released about 200 Central Americans in just over a week as it sped up the interview process used to determine whether those people would be in danger if repatriated.
CBC – Refugees to Canada Delayed Last Year as Money Ran Low
The federal government sought to delay the arrival of refugees last year because it was running out of money. A memo was sent to all Canadian diplomatic missions last November asking them to find people who could be held back from arriving in Canada until 2015 because there were too many in the pipeline and the budget for refugee resettlement was running dry. But Syrian refugees were exempted from the plan, according to documents obtained under the Access to Information Act. “We are running into the problem (an enviable one in some ways) of hitting up against the limit of the [resettlement assistance program] budget we can spend this year,” Emina Tudakovic, a senior official at immigration headquarters in Ottawa, wrote to all missions handling refugee cases. “In general, we are looking at rescheduling travel for any [government-assisted refugees] that you possibly can for 2015 … with the exception of Syria cases,” she added. The request went out as the government was coming under fire for its seemingly slow response to the Syrian refugee crisis.
New Canadian Media – Second-Generation Canadians: Where Do We Fit In?
What exactly is Canadian culture? Canada is often described as one of the most diverse nations in the world, but this multiculturalism has come at the price of a distinct national identity. Approximately 250,000 immigrants arrive in Canada each year. Their integration into society is always a high priority, but there is arguably little focus on their children who will be the face of the country one day. After speaking with a number of second-generation immigrants – defined by Stats Canada as individuals who were born in Canada and had at least one parent born outside Canada – it becomes evident that many have trouble pinpointing exactly what it means to be Canadian. […] The social and cultural alienation that many immigrants feel is something that can be expected; while finding their place within a new setting they often face challenges such as language barriers, difficulty finding employment and an overall culture shock. What many tend to overlook is how the children of these immigrants, who as of 2011 Stats Canada reported represent 17.4 per cent of Canada’s population, must cope with the dual identity that is subsequently created.
