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.
JSTOR Daily – The 1917 Immigration Act that Presaged Trump’s Muslim Ban
This year marks the centennial of the 1917 Immigration Act, which specified several categories of “undesirables” barred from entering the United States […] Its most striking provision, however, was a total ban on immigration from a geographic area designated the “Asiatic Barred Zone.” Whereas European migrants were welcome if they did not tick any of the “undesirable” boxes and could pass a literacy test, no one from the Asia-Pacific zone, regardless of education or class, was permitted. The act expanded the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to counter immigration from “the Orient” comprehensively.
Toronto Star – Canada’s Immigration Detainees Being Locked Up Based on Dodgy Risk Assessments, Star Finds
Canada’s border police have left vital records blank and said they lack the expertise to assess the risks posed by immigration detainees, documents filed in federal court reveal. […] Toronto lawyer Jared Will, who is challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s immigration detention system in Federal Court, said he is shocked by the “lack of competence” of the officers filling out the forms. “Very important decisions on people’s basic liberty and security interests are being made in one of the most deficient administrative processes I’ve ever seen,” he said.
NOW Toronto – Toronto Police “Flagrantly” Ignoring Sanctuary City Policy
A February 2017 study led by Ryerson University criminology professors Graham Hudson and Idil Atak – (No) Access T.O.: A Pilot Study On Sanctuary City Policy In Toronto – concluded that “the Toronto Police Service has not fully complied” with the board policy and has often “flagrantly” ignored it.
CBC – Immigrants Subject to French Language Spot Check Even After Passing Government Test
It was hailed by former premier Jean Charest as a way to fast-track immigration to Quebec. But now hundreds of foreign students risk having their residency applications rejected after having spent thousands of dollars on government-approved French courses.
Radio-Canada – Immigration : enquête de l’UPAC, cours de français et candidats rejetés
Radio-Canada a appris que le ministère de l’Immigration ne fait pas confiance aux résultats des cours de français dispensés par certaines commissions scolaires de Montréal. Une enquête de l’Unité permanente anticorruption a été ouverte et des centaines de personnes voient leur projet d’immigration mis à mal.
Le Figaro – La Suède face au casse-tête des déboutés du droit d’asile
L’attentat de Stockholm commis par un Ouzbek a relancé le débat sur l’expulsion des étrangers en situation irrégulière. Rakhmat Akilov, l’auteur de l’attaque au camion-bélier vendredi dernier au centre de Stockholm, qui a fait 4 morts et 15 blessés, ne devait pas être en Suède.mDemandeur d’asile en 2014, cet homme originaire de l’Ouzbékistan a […].
