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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.
Radio-Canada – États-Unis : grève de la faim contre les déportations d’immigrants
Les services frontaliers et de l’immigration des États-Unis ont confirmé que 750 détenus du Centre de détention du nord-ouest, dans l’État de Washington, avaient refusé de manger, et disent mener une grève de la faim. Une militante immigrante affirme que cette grève de la faim a débuté vendredi pour protester contre des déportations, ainsi que contre les conditions de vie du centre. Près de 1300 personnes sont actuellement détenues à cet endroit, et font l’objet d’une enquête pouvant mener à leur déportation. Un porte-parole de l’Immigration, Andrew Munoz, souligne que l’agence respecte le droit des individus d’exprimer leur opinion sans obstruction.
Irish Central – Canada Offers Over 10,000 Working Holiday Visas to Irish in Major Expansion of Scheme
The Canadian government is to invite 70 per cent more Irish people to work in the country under a new agreement signed with their Dublin counterparts. The new deal means 10,700 International Experience Canada working holiday visas will be available to Irish workers under the age of 35. The visas allow Irish workers and their children to live and work in the country for up to two years. The new total is up dramatically from 6,350 last year reports the Irish Times. The IEC visa program started as a cultural exchange between the two countries but has become increasingly work-focused in recent years according to the paper.
Cameroonvoice – Immigrer au Canada en tant que travailleur autonome
Etes-vous un travailleur indépendant? Travaillez-vous à votre compte depuis au moins deux ans? Avez-vous déjà pensé à vous relocaliser ailleurs tout en ayant la possibilité de poursuivre l’activité autonome que vous occupez actuellement dans votre pays? Si vous avez répondu positivement à toutes ces questions, sachez que la province du Québec dispose d’un programme d’immigration spécialement destiné aux travailleurs autonomes venant des quatre coins du monde et intéressés à créer leur propre emploi ainsi qu’ à faire de la Belle Province, leur nouveau lieu de résidence. La suite de cet article vous en dira davantage sur ce programme des gens d’affaires, moins connu mais bien plus accessible que les fameux programmes d’entrepreneurs et d’investisseurs du Québec, dont la popularité au fil des années ne cesse de croître.
Toronto Star – How Canada Keeps Some Immigrant Women In Their Place
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander will be speaking to the Canadian Club on the eve of International Women’s Day about what his government does to support immigrant women. His speech should be short. […] If a Canadian woman is abused by her partner, the system is supposed to protect her, but when an immigrant woman is abused by her Canadian sponsor, she is treated as the wrongdoer. How did this happen? A couple of years ago, then-minister Jason Kenney decided that “marriage fraud” was a problem of mass proportions crying out for a policy response. According to Minister Kenney, unspecified numbers of innocent Canadians were being duped by foreign spouses who used them to gain admission to Canada, and then took off. No credible studies were produced to determine the scope of the problem, or to carefully consider the pros and cons of various policy options. Instead, anecdotes were paraded as evidence, and used to justify a new policy that effectively puts sponsored spouses on probation, and deputizes their spouses as probation officers.
Vancouver Sun – Migration Facts: B.C. Hardly “Stagnant”
The Canada West foundation has put out a report making the claim that immigration to B.C. has been “stagnant” since 2000. This may seem confusing for Metro Vancouver residents, for good reason. The Canada West Foundation has been quite selective in highlighting certain statistical trends while downplaying others. Based in Calgary, the Canada West Foundation went out of its way to emphasize how more immigrants than before are now going to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But that hardly means B.C. is “stagnating” in regards to immigration levels. […] Statistics Canada numbers paints a much different picture, especially in relationship to Metro Vancouver, which is the destination of nine out of ten immigrants to B.C.
Huffington Post – Immigration Advocates Juggle Fights Against Obama and GOP
Democrats are currently focusing on a few strategies related to immigration reform. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) indicated Tuesday that Democrats will soon pursue a procedural maneuver called a discharge petition to bring a comprehensive immigration reform bill to the floor for a vote. For now, it doesn’t look likely that they’ll get the Republican signatures necessary, since even GOP supporters of the bill said they wouldn’t sign a discharge petition. […] At the same time, Democrats and reform advocates are urging the president to suspend some deportations. If previous removal rates continue, deportations are nearing the 2 million mark during Obama’s presidency — after hitting a record yearly high of nearly 410,000 removals in the 2012 fiscal year. National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguía, an ally of Obama’s on immigration, made waves during a speech Tuesday when she called the president the “deporter-in-chief.”
