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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.
Avec le retour du printemps, les services frontaliers canadiens se préparent à une nouvelle vague de demandeurs d’asile en provenance des États-Unis cette année. La Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC) a intercepté plus de 3000 personnes en situation irrégulière à la frontière en janvier et en février, et les autorités ont traité en tout 7800 dossiers de demandeurs d’asile durant cette période.
Ottawa police are warning the public, particularly international students, about the resurgence of a phone scam threatening victims with deportation unless they pay up. According to police, the fraudsters, who are believed to be calling from outside Canada, pose as officials from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and tell their targets they’ve been charged with a crime in their home country, usually money laundering. They threaten to deport the victim unless they send pre-paid gift cards to a lawyer.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phone-scam-ottawa-international-students-1.4606310
Lucy Fancineth Granados’ supporters are filing a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission to denounce the abusive treatment they say she is suffering at the hands of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). The undocumented Guatemalan was arrested on March 20 by CBSA agents and was scheduled to be deported the following week. The deportation was postponed because the 42-year-old single mother was hospitalized for a health emergency.
The Perceptions of Change Project reached 460 Charlottetown residents by telephone, and asked them a variety of questions about changes in the city. Virtually all respondents, 99 per cent, had noticed an increase in immigrants living in the city in the last five to 10 years. A majority, 57 per cent, said the changes were for the better, with another 40 per cent not seeing the immigrants making a significant difference. Just three per cent judged things changing for the worse.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-change-study-1.4604910
Montreal is taking stock of its housing options as it prepares for another possible increase in asylum seekers this summer. “We want to take action to ensure there is lodging,” Magda Popeanu, vice-chair of the city’s executive committee, said Wednesday. The city opened the cavernous Olympic Stadium to asylum seekers for about a month last August. However, Popeanu stressed that the Plante administration is reluctant to use the Big O this year.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-asylum-seekers-1.4604828
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used Twitter to welcome refugees to Canada last winter, it prompted a spike in inquiries from would-be refugees and resulted in confusion within the federal government, newly released emails reveal. International commentators wondered whether Canada was announcing it would take in all those banned from entering the U.S. Some Canadian officials wondered about that too, according to records the National Post obtained through an access-to-information request.