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Child Crusade lays minefield for U.S. politicians
WASHINGTON – The flow began with a comparative trickle, so no one in government took much notice. In October 2011, U.S. border guards along the Rio Grand Valley frontier separating Texas and Mexico...
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Canada deports 20 members of Hungarian human-trafficking syndicate
HAMILTON, Ont. — Twenty members of a Hungarian human-trafficking ring that brought people from eastern Europe with promises of a better life in Canada have been deported, Public Safety Minister Steven...
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Silicon Valley North: Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles
By Tamsyn Burgmann VANCOUVER — Software engineer Pablo Guana nearly refused a job with Facebook when the company redirected him to Vancouver from Silicon Valley because his United States visa...
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Buzz or bubble? Vancouver tech veterans encourage vision among startups
By Tamsyn Burgmann VANCOUVER — The Canadian founders of mobile gaming company A Thinking Ape embarked on a make-it-or-break-it quest to source first-rate tech wizards when they left Silicon Valley in...
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Canada’s refugee policy risks tearing parents from their children, activists say
By Benjamin Shingler MONTREAL — For the past month, Sheila Sedinger woke up every morning fraught with worry over the prospect of being deported to Mexico without her two young children. But Sedinger,...
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White House: Obama to delay immigration action until after elections (with...
By Jim Kuhnhenn WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, abandoning his pledge to act on the issue...
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Left expected to oust centre-right government in Swedish election
By Karl Ritter STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden heads into a parliamentary election on Sunday with polls showing the left-leaning Social Democrats poised to return to power after eight years of centre-right...
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Foreign workers applications plummet in sign overhaul is success: Kenney
OTTAWA — Employment Minister Jason Kenney says there’s been a significant decrease in applications for temporary foreign workers since the government announced an overhaul of the troubled program...
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Government changes live-in caregiver program, does away with the live-in part
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says live-in caregivers from abroad will no longer be required to reside with their employers, part of an effort to reduce caregiver abuse. In announcing...
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Obama provokes showdown with Republicans with far-reaching immigration orders
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama invited a showdown with newly empowered Republicans in Congress, ordering far-reaching changes to the U.S. immigration system that will protect nearly 5 million...
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With prisons overflowing, Switzerland mulls plan to export inmates to France...
BERLIN — Little Switzerland has too many criminals and too few prisons. Now the Justice Ministry is reportedly considering a proposal to export convicts to neighbouring France and Germany. Swiss...
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Family of Mohamed Fahmy hopes Baird visit to Egypt marks end of imprisonment
By Diana Mehta and Mike Blanchfield The family of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo is hoping that Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s visit to the city on Thursday will mark “the...
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The government gave Santa Claus a Canadian passport
In the history of embarrassing publicity stunts, Friday’s decision by the Conservative government to grant Canadian passports to “Santa Claus” and “Mrs. Claus” will surely go down in infamy. At a...
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Who is Joe Canada? The National Household Survey offered us a new portrait
“Joe Canada” is increasingly likely to be Jose, Youssef or Josipa Canada, with our nation now boasting the highest proportion of foreign-born citizens of the G8 countries: 20.6 per cent. His – or her –...
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Year in a minute: Orwell, immigrants and the informal economy
VANCOUVER – On a dismal spring day, I headed out into a Vancouver deluge to follow up on an anonymous tip, something about an immigration raid and a camera crew. What I uncovered was a bizarre incident...
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Immigration Minister Chris Alexander promises lower wait times, fewer...
OTTAWA — From newly elected MP to cabinet minister in two short years, Chris Alexander says it’s been both challenging and humbling to take on the immigration portfolio long-held by one of the Prime...
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Parent, grandparent immigration program reopens
OTTAWA — A two-year freeze on the popular parent and grandparent immigration stream officially lifted Thursday as officials braced for an expected onslaught of applications of which only the first...
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How many immigrants is too many?
OTTAWA — Despite all the so-called “transformational change” that has befallen Canada’s immigration system, a non-partisan think tank argues the government has missed the mark on one critical element:...
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Citizenship fraud crackdown stymied by tie-ups in Federal Court
OTTAWA — Government efforts to revoke the citizenship of those who’ve obtained it fraudulently have apparently hit a snag. According to the most recent Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)...
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Citizenship changes raising concerns about integration, multiculturalism,...
OTTAWA — Recent changes that have made it tougher to obtain Canadian citizenship may be “counterproductive” to successful immigrant integration, a new study suggests, while a renewed emphasis on...
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