The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
National Post – Concerns Mount Over ‘Criminalization’ of Detained Migrants in Canada
Canada’s border-security agency will soon require all border-security officers working with detained migrants to wear defensive gear that includes batons, pepper spray and bulletproof vests — a policy that is drawing concern over a perceived “criminalization” of asylum seekers. A new national policy on uniforms was adopted internally last year after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) began moving what it deems “higher-risk immigration detainees” from provincial jails, where they were being held for security purposes, into one of the agency’s three “immigration holding centres.”
CTV News – Most Canadians Support Helping Orphans of ISIS Fighters: Nanos Survey
The majority of Canadians appear sympathetic to the plight of orphaned children of ISIS fighters stranded in the Middle East, but most don’t feel the same about adults who travelled to ISIS-controlled regions. A new Nanos Research survey commissioned by CTV News randomly surveyed 1,000 people across Canada and found that nearly six in 10 supported or somewhat supported bringing orphaned children of ISIS fighters with Canadian citizenship back home.
La Presse – Des milliers de migrants sur le point d’être expulsés des États-Unis
Tout semble en place pour que les agents d’immigration américains lancent dès demain des raids dans neuf grandes villes du pays pour arrêter, en vue de les expulser, plus de 2000 familles de migrants. La résistance, elle, se prépare. Le président américain Donald Trump a confirmé que les agents chargés de faire respecter les lois d’immigration américaines, connus sous le nom d’« agents de l’ICE », avaient reçu l’ordre d’arrêter et d’expulser du pays à partir de demain des milliers de migrants sans papiers qui sont visés par des ordres d’expulsion lancés cet hiver.
Global News – ‘Gone in the flames’: 20 Years After Coming to Nova Scotia in the Kosovar Airlift
It has been 20 years since a brutal civil war broke out in the small European territory of Kosovo. It was during the civil war that Canada opened its doors to over 5,500 refugees through Operation Parasol. Nova Scotia played a key part with about half of the refugees landing in the province. When stability returned to Kosovo, about one-third of the refugees chose to return home while the rest made the decision to stay and rebuild their lives in Canada.
CBC News – Suspension of Quebec Graduate Program Leaves International Students in Limbo
“We don’t want you here.” That’s the message Fernanda Pérez Gay Juárez says she is left with, after learning Quebec has suspended, until at least November, a program to fast-track immigration applications from recent graduates of a post-secondary institution in the province. Pérez Gay Juárez is a medical doctor from Mexico who just graduated from McGill University with a PhD in neuroscience. Her dream is to do her residency in psychiatry here in Quebec — but to do that she needs her permanent resident status.
Toronto Star – New Immigration Program Offers Migrant Farm Workers Pathway to Permanent Residence
The Agri-Food Immigration Pilot announced Friday is open to those who work year-round in meat processing, mushroom and greenhouse crop production and raising livestock. However, to be eligible for permanent residence, they must have 12 months of full-time experience in those areas, enough English or French proficiency to take part in short everyday conversations, a high school education and a job offer.
