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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.
Refugee claims should stand or fall on the merits of the case – not on the biases and whims of adjudicators. These decisions have enormous consequences: if a decision-maker at the Immigration and Refugee Board gets it wrong, the person will be sent back to a country where he or she could face persecution, torture or even death, or conversely they could be allowed in under an invented pretext.
The federal government plans to create a global job bank to bring in more skilled foreign workers, while using a new technique to end the “bizarre” situation in which low-skilled temporary foreign workers are hired in Canadian communities with double-digit unemployment, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday. The job bank idea, modelled after New Zealand’s immigration system, is a major departure that will take legislation and at least two years to implement, according to Kenney.
This article is no longer available online. Please contact the media source directly for more information. Original Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Fast+track+skilled+workers/6389730/story.html
Parliament is currently debating legislation that would require one-year, mandatory detention for certain migrants arriving in Canada, including 16- and 17-year-old children. […] The detention provisions in Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, would allow the citizenship and immigration minister to “designate” groups of people arriving in Canada who would automatically be sent into detention for a year if the minister either has “reasonable grounds to suspect” they were smuggled or thinks examination of the group’s members cannot be conducted in “a timely manner.”
CIC is transforming its suite of economic immigration programs to create a just-in-time system that recruits people with the right skills to meet Canada’s labour market needs, fast tracks their immigration, and gets them working in a period of months, not years. Eliminating the longstanding backlog of FSW applications will allow the Department to focus resources on facilitating the arrival of skilled immigrants who apply under the current eligibility criteria.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/2012-03-30a.asp
The UK Border Agency is to trial dental x-rays of child asylum seekers in the face of fierce opposition from the medical profession, immigration lawyers and the UK’s children’s commissioners. […] Any UK-wide introduction of such tests would be likely to involve hundreds of children and young adults each year. The children’s commissioners said in a joint statement that they were appalled at what they believed was “a clear breach of the rights of vulnerable children and young people and may, in fact, be illegal”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/30/uk-border-agency-x-rays-asylum-seekers?INTCMP=SRCH
The federal government came under fire Wednesday for appointing more unilingual anglophones – this time at the Montreal and Ottawa offices of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. […]In one instance in Montreal, anglophone commissioner Stephen Gallagher accepted as evidence a police report written in French despite admitting he would have to make tremendous efforts to understand it.
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