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Tamil Couple Changed Names, Lied About Identities, Immigration Board Says

Tamil couple changed names, lied about identities, immigration board says Marten Yousseff, Vancouver From Friday's Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 10:17PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 10:30PM EDT A Tamil woman and her husband, who … Continue reading

Student Immigration Scam Investigated

Student immigration scam investigated By TOM GODFREY Toronto Sun Last Updated: October 14, 2010 5:00pm An immigration scam targeting Chinese foreign students who are seeking online help with their visas is under investigation, Toronto Police said Thursday. Those conducting the … Continue reading

Home Office To Lift Ban On Deporting Failed Asylum Seekers To Zimbabwe

Home Office to lift ban on deporting failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe By Alan Travis The Guardian (London), October 14, 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/14/asylum-seekers-home-office-lifts-zimbabwe-deportation-ban The four-year-old ban on sending more than 10,000 failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe is to be lifted, … Continue reading

East Timor In No Rush To Endorse Refugee Centre

East Timor in no rush to endorse refugee centre The Australian, October 15, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/east-timor-in-no-rush-to-endorse-refugee-centre/story-fn59niix-1225938921115 East Timor's Foreign Minister Zacarias da Costa has warned a refugee processing centre in Timor could take 'a bit longer' than Australia wants. But speaking … Continue reading

Time Limit Set For Dili Asylum Site

Time limit agreed for Dili asylum site By Paul Maley The Australian, October 14, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/time-limit-agreed-for-dili-asylum-site/story-fn59niix-1225938381957 Australia has agreed to a key condition laid down by East Timor in its negotiations over a refugee processing centre. Asylum-seekers would spend a … Continue reading

Overseas Prostitute Says NZ Low Risk

Overseas prostitute says NZ low risk By Lincoln Tan The New Zealand Herald, October 14, 2010 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10680389 Legalised prostitution has encouraged foreign sex workers to move here without visas or residency because it is 'low risk', a prostitute has said. … Continue reading

Foreign Student Drop Leads To Uni Cuts

Foreign student drop leads to uni job cuts By Melissa Brown ABC News (Australia), October 14, 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/14/3037834.htm?site=melbourne The Victorian Opposition says hundreds of jobs will be lost because of the Government's failure to address concerns about violence against Indian … Continue reading

Rise In ASIO Complaints Linked To Christmas Island Workload

Rise in ASIO complaints linked to Christmas Island workload By Dylan Welch The Sydney Morning Herald, October 15, 2010 http://www.smh.com.au/national/rise-in-asio-complaints-linked-to-christmas-island-workload-20101014-16lwt.html ASIO is struggling under a deluge of immigration security checks, with complaints about the speed of vetting jumping by 563 … Continue reading

Sex Slaves Staffed Brothels, Police Say

Sex slaves staffed brothels, police say Yahoo News Wed Oct 13, 11:26 PM VANCOUVER (CBC) – A man has been arrested on charges that he was running several brothels in Metro Vancouver staffed by women police say were lured from … Continue reading

Florida Tomato Pickers Announce New Deal With Growers To Improve Worker Conditions

Florida tomato pickers announce new deal with growers to improve worker conditions By Laura Wides-Munoz The Associated Press, October 13, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-florida-farmworkers,0,3587837.story A group representing Florida farmworkers and one of the country's largest tomato growers said Wednesday they reached an … Continue reading

Canada Aids In The Arrest Of Tamil Migrants

Canada aids in Thai arrest of Tamil migrants COLIN FREEZE From Tuesday's Globe and Mail (Includes Correction) Published Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 7:42PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 1:33PM EDT 301 comments Thai authorities have arrested more than … Continue reading

Newcomers Exploiting The System

Newcomers exploiting the system By MINDELLE JACOBS QMI Agency Last Updated: October 12, 2010 12:00am Anyone who dares suggest Canadas immigration system is overly generous, easy to abuse and frighteningly unmonitored is automatically deemed a bigot in certain circles. Its … Continue reading

Canada’s Role In Thailand Arrests Queried

Canada's role in Thailand arrests queried CBC News Last Updated: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | 7:47 PM ET Comments 266 Recommend 87 Immigration advocates say Canada may have contravened international law if it had any role in the arrest of … Continue reading

Tories Need To Do More To Win The New Immigrant Vote

Tories need to do more to win the new immigrant vote By Bruce M. Hicks Pacific Asian Post Tuesday, October 12, 2010 [The South Asian Post, October 14, 2010] Since Stephen Harper transitioned from being leader of the Canadian Alliance … Continue reading

They Will Keep Coming—There Are Good Reasons To Believe That Many Tamils Are Taking Advantage Of Canada’s Flawed Refugee Process

They will keep coming There are good reasons to believe that many Tamil migrants are taking advantage of Canada's flawed refugee process By Martin Collacott Citizen Special October 11, 2010 7:59 AM The arrival of a boatload of Sri Lankan … Continue reading

First Multimedia Sikh Museum Opens In Canada

First multimedia Sikh museum opens in Canada By Gurmukh Singh Thaindian News, October 11, 2010 by IANS [South Asian Post, October 14, 2010] Mississauga, Oct 11 (IANS) Canada became the first country after India to open a unique Multimedia Sikh … Continue reading

Hungarians Treated Like Slaves : RCMP

Hungarians treated like slaves: RCMP Adam McDowell and Mary Vallis National Post Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 RCMP were hunting Friday for members of an alleged human trafficking ring, which they have charged with bringing at least 16 Hungarians to Canada … Continue reading

Montreal Stowaways Thought They Were Headed To Italy, Spain

Montreal stowaways thought they were headed to Italy, Spain By Anne Sutherland Montreal Gazette October 8, 2010 Nine foreign nationals who stowed away in Morocco aboard the MSC Lugano container ship that docked at the Port of Montreal are being … Continue reading

Officials Keep Lid On Stowaways

Officials keep lid on stowaways Human smuggling; Will not reveal gender, ages or nationalities By MAX HARROLD The Gazette October 8, 2010 Authorities are being tight-lipped about the nine foreign nationals being detained by Canadian immigration officials in a case … Continue reading

Terror Suspect Deported To Canada

Terror suspect deported to Canada Postmedia News October 8, 2010 A Somali-born Canadian citizen, who admitted he attended al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and lectures by Osama bin Laden, has been deported to Canada after he was released from an … Continue reading