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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.
En soi, il n’y a rien de mal à discuter des seuils d’immigration. Tous les pays le font à un moment ou à un autre et ce n’est ni un signe de fermeture ni un signe de rejet. Mais, le sujet étant nécessairement émotif, il importe de le faire en utilisant des faits plutôt que des perceptions et en évitant de se tirer dans le pied avec des slogans plutôt que des solutions.
More than 6,900 migrants have been rescued from the central Mediterranean, in one of the largest ever single-day operations, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. The Italian coast guard co-ordinated 35 interventions on Monday, intercepting 44 dinghies, eight small wooden boats, one ship with 200 on board and another carrying 704 people, Flavio Di Giacomo, an IOM spokesman in Rome, told DPA.
A Jamaican immigrant with a history of schizophrenia has been held in a maximum-security jail for five years and received what an expert witness called “inadequate” treatment, a court has heard. Alvin Brown, 40, was arrested on September 8, 2011, and has since been detained at three different provincial prisons, despite efforts by border enforcement authorities to obtain a travel document for his deportation, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice was told Tuesday.
Un gouvernement du Québec dirigé par la Coalition avenir Québec abaisserait de 20 % le seuil d’immigration actuellement en vigueur au Québec, en le faisant passer de 50 000 à 40 000, tout en maintenant inchangé le budget consacré à leur accueil, a confirmé mardi le chef du parti, François Legault.
Les réfugiés manifestent presque quotidiennement depuis une semaine. Des femmes ont ainsi bloqué pendant cinq heures l’autoroute qui relie Maiduguri, la capitale de l’État de Borno, à la ville de Kano en criant que leurs enfants meurent de faim et qu’elles n’ont aucune eau potable alors que le mercure surpasse 40 degrés Celsius.
Mass deportations and inadequate asylum procedures in Mexico and the US have fueled a humanitarian crisis where desperate Central Americans seeking refuge from rampant violence are routinely preyed upon by criminal gangs and corrupt officials, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/27/us-mexico-mass-deportations-refugees-central-america