Posted by admin on Aug 12th, 2008
The 2002 Homeland Security Act established its largest investigative and enforcement arm in 2003: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) created “as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling, violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children” – “criminal” and “terrorist” threats to the nation. Muslims are its principal targets. So are Latino immigrants, forced to seek work here because of NAFTA’s devastating effect on their lives and well-being. Turning logic, fairness and justice on its head in the current climate of fear, ICE calls them (and Muslims) “people….support(ing) terrorism and other criminal activities….against the United States” – 276,912 so-called “illegal aliens” removed from the country in FY2007 to justify its burgeoning budget to “keep America safe.”
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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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Posted by admin on Sep 28th, 2007
Fri. Sep. 28 2007 CTV.ca News Staff
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says there will be “consequences” for any illegal refugees who try to enter Canada without proper documentation. “People cannot come into this country without proper documentation and consequences will follow if they do,” he told reporters in Calgary. His comments came on the heels of reports suggesting that busloads of illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. were on their way to Windsor, Ont.
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Posted by admin on Sep 24th, 2007
TheStar.com – Canada. September 24, 2007
Clad in a soaked windbreaker, with everything she owned in a blue backpack, Jessica plodded seven hours in drenching rain along a dark Vermont highway, following the lights to what she hoped would be asylum in a country more welcoming than the United States. Sneaking around the lighted border post, the 27-year-old Salvadoran made it into Quebec undetected, where she found a cab that would get her to a bus station – and from there to a train and Toronto.
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