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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.
Le budget fédéral de mardi devrait préciser comment le gouvernement libéral gérera financièrement l’augmentation prévue des seuils d’immigration au Canada pendant les trois prochaines années. Les libéraux avaient annoncé en novembre qu’ils voulaient accueillir près d’un million de nouveaux arrivants de 2018 à 2020.
Des organismes communautaires ont accompagné des milliers de réfugiés haïtiens depuis l’été dernier. Ils ont travaillé jusqu’à quatre fois plus sans grand budget supplémentaire. Car, à part pour l’aide au logement, les gouvernements les ont très peu soutenus. Voici le cri du coeur de trois dirigeantes. Le gouvernement s’assure d’offrir tous les services nécessaires à une prise en charge adéquate des demandeurs d’asile.
La Cour suprême a rejeté lundi une demande de l’administration Trump de trancher immédiatement sur le programme mis en place par Barack Obama protégeant d’une expulsion quelque 700 000 Dreamers (rêveurs), entrés clandestinement aux États-Unis. À moins que le Congrès ne trouve rapidement un compromis sur ce thème, la situation de ces jeunes, autorisés à travailler et […].
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1085917/cour-supreme-president-americain-donald-trump-dreamers
At Ebrahim Toure’s first detention review hearing, three days after he was arrested by Canada’s border police, immigration authorities said his detention was not likely to be “unduly lengthy.” That was five years ago. The federal government, meanwhile, appears to be no closer to deporting the 46-year-old failed refugee claimant to Gambia, where he is believed to have been born. He has no identity documents and Gambian officials have given no indication they will issue him any.
Israel is set to begin deporting some 37,000 asylum-seekers, the majority of them Sudanese and Eritreans, in April. The Canadian government is under the gun to resettle 1,845 of the African refugees whose sponsorship applications are currently in process, some for years. A spokesperson for Immigration Canada confirmed it has reached an agreement with Israeli authorities to allow the Canada-bound asylum-seekers to remain in the country and not be jailed until their sponsorships are finalized.
The number of people intercepted by the RCMP last month as they attempted to cross the Canada-U.S. border irregularly was down slightly from the month before. According to figures released this week by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 1,517 people were stopped by the police as they crossed between legal checkpoints during what is typically Canada’s coldest month — January. Of those, 1,458 came through in Quebec. The rest were split between Manitoba (18) and British Columbia (41).
https://globalnews.ca/news/4043325/border-crossings-illegal-irregular-january-2018/