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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.
U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 25 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
L’athlète québécois Yassine Aber, qui a été refoulé à la frontière américaine, jeudi, ignore pour quels motifs, précisément, les douaniers l’ont ainsi empêché de participer à une compétition d’athlétisme à Boston. Le coureur de 400 mètres n’a pu accompagner son équipe du Vert et Or, de l’Université de Sherbrooke.
Ottawa immigration lawyer Jackie Bonisteel of Corporate Immigration Law Firm says it may prove difficult for the newcomers to claim refugee status after arriving from the U.S. Speaking on Ottawa Morning, Bonisteel said the influx is “not all that surprising given what is happening in the U.S., given the talk of completely dismantling the refugee program for even a temporary period of time.” Because Canada is a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, Bonisteel said, anyone who arrives on Canadian soil to make a refugee claim has a right to do so, and has a right to a hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/refugee-immigration-lawyer-status-border-1.3975619
Reuters reports that 430 asylum seekers crossed Manitoba’s border between April 2016 and the end of January 2017, up from 340 in the 2015-16 fiscal year and 68 in 2013-14. […] In Quebec, 1,280 refugee claimants entered between April 2016 and January 2017, up from 424 the year before according to the Canada Border Services Agency. And in British Columbia and Yukon, 652 people entered Canada illegally in 2016, more than double the previous year.
http://globalnews.ca/news/3241666/toronto-doctor-helps-refugees-fleeing-u-s-for-asylum-in-canada/
The Trudeau government is under increasing pressure to explain why it started turning away LGBT Iranian refugees during the Syrian airlift, ending a program that resettled hundreds of persecuted Iranians through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). […] Weekly arrivals gradually slowed in late 2015, and by 2016 the UNHCR started referring these Iranians to the United States, which has now barred Iranians from entry following President Donald Trump’s executive order on several predominantly Muslim countries.
‘With student populations declining across most of northern Ontario, Catholic schools in Sudbury are turning to international students to fill their classrooms. Recruiting international students has become a focus of the Sudbury Catholic School Board, according to board superintendent Terry Papineau.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-catholic-schools-international-1.3975995