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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.
Human rights group Amnesty International is calling on Greek authorities to stop mass roundups of suspected illegal immigrants, arguing that police are treating law-abiding foreigners like criminals and subjecting thousands of detained persons to “degrading and inhumane” conditions. […] Greece is the busiest transit point for illegal immigrants trying to reach the European Union.
When Michael Spindelegger, Austria’s current vice-chancellor and foreign minister, came to Canada a few years ago, he returned to Austria full of ideas about immigration and integration, some of which have since become Austrian law. […] “One consequence of what he saw here is that, since the elections we had last year and the new government, for the first time ever, there’s a junior minister for integration who works on an interdisciplinary basis,” the ambassador said. The minister looks at integration in the work-place, in schools and in communities in general.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Austria+picks+Canadian+ideas/7055766/story.html
A federal proposal to crack down on student visa fraud could put some post-secondary schools out of business, says the CEO of an agency that registers and accredits private career colleges and vocational schools in B.C. […] “Some of the schools are 60 per cent international students. They could go out of business. About 20 or 25 per cent rely on international markets to such a degree it would really impact their business if that got pulled.”
At least 22 foreign adult entertainers in Windsor, Ont., will have to leave the country when their temporary foreign worker visas expire within the next 11 months. Rob Katzman, who owns and operates two adult entertainment clubs in Windsor, said the first of the 22 dancers will be forced to leave Canada in less than 30 days. Changes announced by Ottawa on July 4 now make it illegal for an employer to hire any temporary foreign worker “linked to the sex trade” — and that includes strippers.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/08/06/wdr-strippers-foreign-worker-visas.html
Greece’s national police force said it has arrested 500 people as part of a “huge” campaign in central Athens and the northeastern Evros region to crack down on illegal immigrants. Police have detained 1,500 immigrants in the capital since the campaign began on Aug. 2, the Athens-headquartered force said Saturday in a statement on its website. […] As many as 90 per cent of illegal immigrants in the European Union entered through Greece in 2011, according to Greek police statistics.
http://www.theprovince.com/Greece+cracks+down+illegal+immigrants/7044287/story.html
The 24-year-old former combat interpreter for Canadian forces in Kandahar arrived in Toronto last Sunday, after a two-year fight to get to Canada. After delays and rejection, front-page stories by the Star’s Paul Watson and finally an intervention from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, he was approved on a visa under a special program set up to protect Afghans who faced retaliation from Taliban-led insurgents.