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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.
Amnesty International accuse les gouvernements européens d’avoir mis en danger des milliers d’Afghans candidats à l’asile en les renvoyant de force dans leur pays malgré une insécurité croissante.
Les nationalistes hindous au pouvoir en Inde veulent déporter les 40 000 réfugiés rohingya vivant en Inde depuis plusieurs années, au moment où 500 000 d’entre eux viennent d’être chassés de Birmanie, victimes, selon l’ONU, d’un nettoyage ethnique.
On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said a man named Abdullahi Hassan Sharif was ordered deported from the United States in 2011. Sources said they believe that man and the suspect arrested after the Sept. 30 attack in Edmonton — Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 30 — are the same person. Canadian officials said Sharif, who is from Somalia, made an asylum claim at a Canada-U.S. border crossing in 2012, and was granted it later that year. Kenney served as immigration minister from 2008 to 2013.
After nearly two years of paperwork, correspondence, anxiety and cautious optimism, a gay Syrian refugee finally got his application approved by the Canadian government in August. The only thing left to do was wait for the government to arrange and confirm his flight. But Ahmad, who also had a heart condition, died suddenly on Sunday. And now his friends are wondering why the government didn’t push to bring him here sooner.
Although the Liberal government has no immediate plans to establish a special resettlement program for the Rohingya, Mr. Hussen said Canada would not even be able to do so if it did. The Bangladeshi government refuses to issue exit visas, which are required for refugee resettlement, to the more than 500,000 Rohingya who have fled what the Canadian government and the United Nations call “ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar. As the minister noted, the exit-permit problem is not new for Rohingya in Bangladesh.
Starting Oct. 11, permanent residents will be eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship if they have lived in the country for three out of the previous five years. Also, applicants over 55 years of age are once again exempt from the language and knowledge tests for citizenship under the amended citizenship regulations to be announced by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen on Wednesday.