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TORONTO, June 19, 2013 /CNW/ - Before increasing new immigrant intake targets, Canada should focus on improving immigrants' labour market outcomes through reforms to the selection process, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In "Improving Immigrant Selection: Further Changes Are Required Before Increasing Inflows," author Christopher Worswick cites recent evidence of poor outcomes for recent immigrants that raise a caution flag for higher annual...
New Census projections show small effect on working-age share of population WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Immigration Studies has examined the Census Bureau's new projections which examine the impact of different levels of immigration on the United States. The projections show what demographers have long known: immigration has only a small impact on slowing the aging of America. Many promoters of the Gang of Eight immigration bill, which roughly...
Effective Alternatives to Detention Could Save Up to $2,500 Per Person Per Month WASHINGTON, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tens of thousands of people languish in U.S. immigration detention facilities every year -- including a number of U.S. citizens -- without receiving a hearing to determine whether their detention is warranted, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) said in a report released today. The report, Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA, shows that, in...
By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia abandoned plans for tougher new asylum laws on Monday after a revolt by government lawmakers, as eight illegal immigrants were found on a remote island in the Timor Sea. The new laws, drawn up to ease Indonesian concerns after Australia granted asylum to 43 Papuans, would have sent all asylum seekers who arrived by boat on mainland Australia to detention camps on the remote Pacific island nation of Nauru. But Prime Minister John Howard...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia abandoned on Monday plans for tougher new asylum laws, designed to ease Indonesian concerns, after a revolt by government lawmakers ensured Prime Minister John Howard could not pass the legislation. The revolt handed Howard the biggest parliamentary defeat in his conservative government's 10 years in office, and forced him to withdraw the changes ahead of a vote. "The whole bill is out," Howard told reporters, adding he accepted that he did not have the...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - At least 26 Australian citizens had been detained in the past as suspected illegal immigrants, a Department of Immigration spokeswoman said on Saturday. They were among 220 cases of detention of suspected illegal immigrants which the department has referred to Australia's ombudsman for review. But the spokeswoman denied weekend media reports that the 26 had been wrongly detained. Their cases covered a wide range of circumstances such as short-term detention for...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian review of how it grants visas to asylum seekers could undermine the integrity and credibility of its refugee process, human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday that the system was under review after a recent Immigration Department decision to grant asylum to 42 boat people from Indonesia's Papua province strained ties between Canberra and Jakarta. The government is considering...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will review how it grants visas to asylum seekers, Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday, after Indonesia complained it was not consulted over Canberra's decision to give 42 Papuans protection visas. Australia's Immigration Department recognized the 42 boat people from Indonesia's troubled Papua province as refugees last month after they sailed from their homeland in a traditional outrigger with a banner accusing Indonesia of genocide. Jakarta denies...
By Paul Tait SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has accepted that an Iranian boy kept in immigration camps ringed by razor-wire had suffered psychological damage and paid compensation to settle the court case, officials and lawyers said on Friday. Shayan Badraie's family and lawyers said the 11-year-old boy developed post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing suicide attempts and violence at two detention facilities, where he was held along with his parents. He was aged between 5 and 7...
By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - Racial tensions in Sydney that erupted into violence this week have been fueled by fear due to the war on terrorism, alienation, ignorance, territorialism and youthful arrogance, social commentators say. Australia is a nation built of migrants, where more than 200 languages are spoken. But there is an underlying ignorance among ethnic groups, especially between white and Arab groups. Tensions have been simmering for years between the two groups,...
