Posted by admin on Jun 9th, 2008
June 09, 2008. Nicholas Keung. Toronto Star
Juana Tejada wants to stay – and die – in Canada. A live-in caregiver from the Philippines, the terminally ill cancer patient will be forced to leave when her work permit expires in two months, even though her period of service here as a nanny was supposed to be the gateway to permanent residency. Tejada has twice been denied a chance to stay, however, because her illness puts a burden on the health-care system.
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Posted by admin on May 25th, 2008
LOS ANGELES- Federal immigration agents have arrested 905 people in California in the past three weeks after a statewide search for those who had violated orders to leave the country. The operation was the latest in a series of national sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The arrests were the result of collaboration among teams in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco that began on May 5. “The focal point of this operation were people who had exhausted all of their due process in the courts,” said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. “They have a final order of removal issued by a U.S. immigration judge, and they’ve failed to depart.”
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Posted by admin on May 14th, 2008
Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason
by Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest | Washington Post Staff Writers. Page A1; May 14, 2008
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. The government’s forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the “pre-flight cocktail,” as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane.
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Posted by admin on May 8th, 2008
Andrew Mayeda. Canwest News Service. Tuesday, May 06, 2008
OTTAWA – The Harper government hopes to implement tighter “exit controls” on deportees, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Tuesday after the auditor general revealed that Canada’s border-protection agency has lost track of about 41,000 individuals ordered to leave the country. Auditor General Sheila Fraser found that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) does not have an adequate system for tracking such individuals. Moreover, CBSA officers don’t investigate the vast majority of such cases, for fear of devoting resources to find people who might have already left the country.
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Posted by admin on May 8th, 2008
Globe and Mail by STEVEN CHASE and GLORIA GALLOWAY AND BILL CURRY. May 7, 2008
OTTAWA — Canada’s border agency has lost track of 41,000 illegal immigrants ordered to leave the country – most of whom are failed refugee claimants, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said yesterday in her latest report on how Ottawa spends. She also reprimanded Canada Border Services Agency for making uneven decisions about when to detain suspected illegal immigrants and for failing to watch the bottom line when it comes to escorting deportees out
of the country.
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