Canada's Immigration Policy
Dany Villanueva will be allowed to stay in Canada
posted on February 27, 2016 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkDany Villanueva peut rester au Canada
posted on February 27, 2016 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkCelui qui était menacé d'expulsion en raison de ses antécédents judiciaires a reçu cette semaine une lettre d'un délégué du ministre John McCallum, lui confirmant que sa demande d'Évaluation des risques avant renvoi (ÉRAR) a été acceptée, selon son avocat, Stéphane Handfield.
Dany Villanueva est le frère de Fredy Villanueva, qui était tombé sous les balles d'un policier alors qu'il se trouvait dans un parc de Montréal-Nord en août 2008, un drame qui avait fait grand bruit à l'époque.
Il était sous le coup d'un ordre d'expulsion du Canada après avoir été condamné pour vol qualifié.
Les autorités fédérales ont toutefois déterminé que le risque auquel il s'exposait en rentrant dans son pays d'origine était plus important que le niveau de dangerosité qu'il constituait pour la société canadienne, a expliqué en entrevue téléphonique Me Handfield.
L'avocat voit en cette décision la matérialisation d'une « nouvelle attitude » au ministère fédéral de l'Immigration depuis l'élection du nouveau gouvernement libéral. « C'est le jour et la nuit », a-t-il résumé.
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ICLMG joins other rights groups to denounce the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act as discriminatory and anti-Canadian
posted on August 20, 2015 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkCanada's secret trials, immigration policy under fire on Human Rights Day
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VIDEO: Deportation to Torture: Past, Present and Future (on Youtube.com, 5 parts)
posted on May 29, 2009 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLink========= Deportation to Torture: Past, Present and Future – Part 1 of 5 The Case of Mohamed Harkat
Deportation to Torture: Past, Present and Future – Part 2 of 5 The Case of Maher Arar
Deportation to Torture: Past, Present and Future – Part 3 of 5 The Case of Abousfian Abdelrazik
Deportation to Torture: Past, Present and Future – Part 5 of 5
National Security and Human Rights
[27 FÉV, MONTRÉAL] Manif d'urgence contre nouveaux certificats de securite
posted on February 25, 2008 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkVendredi passé, Adil Charkaoui, Mohammad Mahjoub, Mahmoud Jaballah, Hassan
Almrei et Mohamed Harkat ont été informés que des nouveaux certificats de
sécurité avaient été émis contre eux, en vertu de la toute nouvelle loi des
certificats de sécurité.
Joignez-vous à nous MERCREDI pour une manifestation d'urgence contre les
nouveaux certificats de sécurité et pour exiger que le gouvernement :
1. libérer immédiatement, sans conditions, les cinq détenus des certificats
de sécurité ;
2. leur accorde un procès juste et ouvert, si des preuves existent vraiment
contre eux ;
3. abolisse les certificats de sécurité ;
4. mette fin aux procédures de déportation contre les détenus des
certificats de sécurité et mette fin à la déportation vers la torture ;
5. cesse son utilisation raciste des communautés musulmanes, arabes et
autres communautés ciblées comme des boucs émissaires.
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Terrorism suspect Harkat ordered deported
posted on July 20, 2006 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkURL: [link]
Date: July 18, 2006
An Ottawa man who spent years in a Canadian prison on terrorism allegations has been ordered deported to his native Algeria — but it's unlikely he'll be forced to leave anytime soon.
Mohamed Harkat — who was detained without charge beginning in 2002 under one of the controversial federal security certificates — was told on July 14 that the Canadian Border Services Agency had decided to send him back, despite his fears that he will be tortured and killed.
The deportation decision was confirmed late Monday by Harkat's lawyer, Paul Copeland.
Both Harkat and his lawyer have argued that he would be in grave danger if he returned to Algeria because the Canadian Security Intelligence Service accused him of being an al-Qaeda "sleeper agent" and alleged that Harkat trained under Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants in Afghanistan. Harkat has denied the allegations.
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Immigration Minister's Speech Disrupted by Protesters
posted on June 01, 2006 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkMay 31, 2006, OTTAWA -- Canadian Immigration Minister Monte Solberg fled the Christ Church Anglican Cathederal just seconds after beginning a scheduled speech this evening. He left abruptly after being directly confronted about his government's policy on deportations, and lack of action on regularization, by immigrant rights protesters from Ottawa and Montreal.
--> Photos of the disruption are available at: [link]
--> The flyer passed out during the disruption ? "Why we're protesting" -- is linked at: [link]
Monte Solberg was due to address the Annual Meeting of Citizens for Public Justice on the theme of "Welcome the Stranger: Becoming Neighbours". At least a dozen members of Solidarity Across Borders and No One Is Illegal-Montreal came to Ottawa to attend the speech, and were joined by immigrant rights allies in Ottawa.
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Report on People's Commission Public Hearings
posted on May 21, 2006 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkSource: Justice Coalition for Adil Charkaoui Listserv
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Date: May 21, 2006
Three days of democracy
Report on People's Commission Public
Hearings 21-23 April 2006, Montreal
** PHOTO ESSAY HERE:
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** Commissioners' report of findings and recommendations
is due on 6 June. **
For three days, the People's Commission on Immigration Security Measures held Public Hearings at a community centre in Montreal's St-Henri neighbourhood. The first popular commission of inquiry to take place in Quebec, it was set up to look into the injustices and abuses inflicted on immigrants in the name of national security, and to offer recommendations for change and action.
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Immigration officials nab kids to net parents
posted on May 01, 2006 | in Category Canada's Immigration Policy | PermaLinkSource: CTV.CA
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Date: April 29, 2006
In an unusual move designed to net an illegal immigrant couple, immigration officials in Toronto went to a school and threatened to take away two young sisters if their parents didn't turn themselves in.
The officials then took the sisters, who are seven and 14-years-old, and their Costa Rican mother to a detention centre.
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