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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.
Tous les indicateurs hurlent à la pénurie de main-d’oeuvre : un taux de chômage au plancher (3 %), un ratio emplois/demandeurs stratosphérique (1,43), une population active en déclin depuis 20 ans…Mais pas question d’ouvrir les portes du Japon aux travailleurs étrangers. Sinon pour quelques années. À certaines conditions. Et en dernier recours.
Responding to widespread criticism from humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee in 2015, the Liberal government announced last summer its intention to create a “better” and “fairer” immigration detention system. But while Justin Trudeau’s government has detained fewer people than the Conservatives did under Stephen Harper, there has been no meaningful change in policy that would end a system criticized as inhumane, arbitrary and a violation of international law.
http://projects.thestar.com/caged-by-canada-immigration-detention/part-1/
Ottawa has no intention of cancelling its Third Safe Country agreement with the United States despite the immigration crackdown by the Trump administration, federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said during a speech at a major immigration conference in Montreal Friday morning.
According to the Canada Border Services Agency, refugee claims filed for minors 17 years old or younger have increased steadily in recent years. The number of youth asylum seekers jumped from 2,011 in 2015 to 3,400 in 2016. But neither the CBSA nor the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship were able to provide clear data on the number of unaccompanied or separated minors who arrive per year in Canada.
According to figures provided by Ice, there were 18,378 removals in January. Mr Trump took office on 20 January. Of those, 9,580 had some type of criminal record, or about 52%. In February, 17,226 people were deported – again, 52% had past criminal convictions. But who are the people behind the deportations?
Migrant deaths rose sharply last year, particularly in the Mediterranean, as smugglers made ever-riskier attempts to ferry asylum-seekers and refugees on increasingly unseaworthy vessels, according to United Nations statistics released Friday. The International Organization for Migration documented 7,763 migrant deaths in 2016 worldwide, 27 per cent more than the 6,107 recorded in 2015.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/un-risky-sea-crossings-fuel-sharp-rise-in-migrant-deaths-1.3329324