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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
The number of immigrants who choose to stay in Toronto five years after getting here is declining, Statistics Canada says, and one of the possible reasons why will likely not come as a surprise to most. In a report released last month, the federal agency said it is seeing a “downward trend” in the five-year retention rate of immigrants in the country’s top three urban centres: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
A backlog of 267,000 cases at the tribunal that hears asylum claims in Canada risks rising even further if a predicted influx of asylum claimants crosses the border from the U.S. after president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, immigration experts say. The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) has a backlog four times higher than it was two years ago as a flood of claims has left it unable to keep up. The backlog means refugee claimants must wait almost four years before their cases are decided, creating hardship and uncertainty, and immigration lawyers say the problem will continue unless Ottawa gives the tribunal more resources.
Le Canada Atlantique a eu plus de mal à retenir ses immigrants que les autres régions de pays. Dans les quatre provinces de l’Atlantique, les taux de rétention sur un an étaient moins élevés chez les immigrants admis en 2021 que chez ceux admis en 2020, indique Statistique Canada dans un rapport présenté la semaine dernière. La baisse a été de 14,4 % à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; de 11,7 % en Nouvelle-Écosse; de 8,9 % à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard et de 2,2 % au Nouveau-Brunswick.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2129675/immigrants-qui-restent-provinces-atlantique
L’interdiction de la pratique du « tour du poteau » constitue le dernier chapitre d’une série de mesures adoptées en 2024 pour freiner l’immigration temporaire au pays. Depuis, certains résidents non permanents voient déjà leur rêve de s’installer ici s’écrouler. Jusqu’à mardi, il était tout à fait légal d’obtenir un permis de travail en faisant un aller-retour à la frontière. L’avantage de cette pratique, qui est même conseillée par les avocats en droit de l’immigration dans certains cas ? Accomplir en une journée ce qui aurait pu prendre, en ligne… six mois.
This year brought one of the most significant policy reversals in the Liberal government’s nine years in power: drastically cutting the number of immigrants entering Canada over the next three years. The dramatic reduction followed months of warnings from economists, corporate banks and even the government’s own officials that Canada’s population growth was outpacing the availability of services and housing, driving up costs.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/immigration-minister-marc-miller-interview
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters. Trump, in an interview with the New York Post on Saturday, praised the use of visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the U.S. The topic has become a flashpoint within his conservative base. In fact, Trump has in the past criticized the H-1B visas, calling them “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. During his first term as president, he unveiled a “Hire American” policy that directed changes to the program to try to ensure the visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants.