Immigration: New Immigration

Former Yugoslavia Dept: The government would send a strong signal to future smugglers and their human cargo if it got tough now, former diplomat James Bissett says, according to Montreal Gazette. B-issett, whoservedasambassa dor to the former Yugoslavia and is a-veteran of the federal Immigra t-ion Department, and other mem bers of the Centre for Immigration P-olicyReformstoppedshortof say ing those arriving in Canada should be deprived of a hearing of their refugee claim and people who pay smug glers to get them to Canada are n-ot innocent victims, and the fed eral government should get more aggressive about sending them home, a leading member of a new immigration lobby group says. "-There is one solution to smug g-ling: That'stosendthemback," Bis sett said yesterday. "If you send one boat back, you won't get another." As reported in the news.
@t james bissett, refugee claim