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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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that the Liberal government had been working with the Trump administration “to ensure that Canadians’ rights are respected and that we continue to have the smooth flow of goods, services and people back and forth across our border.” At the same time, it is the right of a country to decide who crosses its border, Trudeau added.
John F. Kelly, the American homeland security secretary, acknowledged on Friday that President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and the perception that the United States was now inhospitable toward Muslims may be causing more migrants to seek refuge in Canada. The growing number of refugee claimants who are entering Canada by illegally crossing from the United States was among the issues Mr. Kelly discussed with members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet during a one-day visit to Ottawa.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to respond to Manitoba’s call for help in dealing with an influx of asylum-seekers crossing the border from the United States, Premier Brian Pallister said Thursday. Pallister said he wrote to Trudeau more than a week ago to ask for money for housing, welfare, language training, legal aid and other services for border-crossers.
Depuis maintenant plusieurs mois, la ville de Tijuana au Mexique doit composer avec des visiteurs inattendus : des milliers de migrants haïtiens bloqués dans cette communauté frontalière des États-Unis. Rosemond Dorelus, l’un de ces migrants, peine à contenir sa frustration. « On ne sait pas quand on peut débloquer, dit-il, et par quels moyens nous allons débloquer. »
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1021268/migrants-haiti-tijuana-aide-toronto-trump
Hawaï est devenu mercredi le premier État américain à contester en justice le nouveau décret migratoire du président Donald Trump, qui interdit l’entrée des États-Unis aux ressortissants de six pays majoritairement musulmans. «Le ministre de la Justice Doug Chin a annoncé aujourd’hui (mercredi) que l’Etat d’Hawaï avait déposé une demande de suspension provisoire dans sa […].
Le premier ministre manitobain Brian Pallister a réclamé jeudi un soutien supplémentaire du gouvernement fédéral pour faire au flot de demandeurs d’asile qui traversent le Manitoba en provenance des États-Unis. Soulignant que plus de 200 demandeurs d’asile ont traversé illégalement la frontière depuis le 1er janvier[…].
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/03/09/refugies-aux-frontieres-le-manitoba-demande-laide-dottawa