Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
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.
La fermeture de bureaux de traitement des demandes d’immigration du Canada se poursuit avec celle, annoncée discrètement lundi, des bureaux de Detroit, Seattle et Caracas. Près de 10 000 demandeurs attendent depuis plus d’un an une réponse à leur demande de résidence permanente, selon les chiffres fournis par un groupe qui se fait appeler Les Oubliés de Buffalo.
On September 10th and 11th, 2013, top officials of border security agencies from the U.S., Canada, as well as state, local and international law enforcement agencies, and industry, will gather at the US/Canada Border Conference in Detroit, Michigan at the Cobo Center to address the 5,525 miles that make up the International Boundary of the U.S. and Canada border. Commonly referred to as “the world’s largest undefended border,” it is now the focus of both the Obama and Harper administrations.
A U.S. Army deserter who’s been hiding out in a Vancouver church for more than three years barely escaped arrest this week when Canada Border Services Agency officers spotted him outside. Rodney Watson was only able to get away and return to his church sanctuary because an elderly friend ran interference and was himself arrested, the National Post reports. The incident highlights the grey area around the ancient concept of sanctuary. Canada Border Services does not officially recognize it and reserves the right to arrest anyone illegally in Canada in any location. But in reality the optics of going into a church, temple or mosque to collar would-be refugees are not good, so instances have been rare. Authorities prefer to wait them out. So do those in sanctuary and their supporters, who see it as an opportunity to put their case to the public via the media, hoping to pressure the government to allow claimants to stay.
The case of a Tamil migrant whose refugee claim was denied reveals a key problem with Canada’s new refugee law, his lawyer says. The migrant, who can’t be named for fear of reprisals against his young family in Sri Lanka, is now blocked from two key avenues of appeal. At the Toronto construction site where he worked until recently, the migrant (who we’ll call John), described how he’s been affected by Canada’s plan to deport him. “I haven’t been able to sleep well ever since I heard about this deportation business,” he says. John arrived in Vancouver aboard the MV Sun Sea in 2010. He spent three months aboard the ship crowded with nearly 500 migrants. After spending six months in detention, he moved to Toronto, where he found steady contracting work and won the respect of his employer. But last year, the Immigration and Refugee Board denied his claim.
Canada’s prison service plans a new pilot project to test the effectiveness of electronic ankle bracelets on offenders released into the community with conditions. In addition, the federal border agency will consult the United States and Britain as part of a study looking at expanded use of the tracking devices on immigrants and refugee claimants. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews outlined the initiatives — despite steadfast opposition from the NDP — in a written response to a Commons committee that examined electronic bracelets last year.
The case of a Tamil migrant whose refugee claim was denied reveals a key problem with Canada’s new refugee law, his lawyer says. The migrant, who can’t be named for fear of reprisals against his young family in Sri Lanka, is now blocked from two key avenues of appeal. At the Toronto construction site where he worked until recently, the migrant (who we’ll call John), described how he’s been affected by Canada’s plan to deport him. “I haven’t been able to sleep well ever since I heard about this deportation business,” he says. John arrived in Vancouver aboard the MV Sun Sea in 2010. He spent three months aboard the ship crowded with nearly 500 migrants. After spending six months in detention, he moved to Toronto, where he found steady contracting work and won the respect of his employer. But last year, the Immigration and Refugee Board denied his claim.