Refugee Claimants: Asylum Seekers

Formal Accord Dept: Kenney made the pledge after he and French counterpart Eric Besson completed a meeting in Paris they organized with ministers from Britain, Germany, Italy, Greece and Belgium, according to Montreal Gazette. Kenney said Parliament should consider minimum jail sentences for people-smugglers to send a strong message, following the recent landing of 492 Tamil migrants in B.C and the federal government will attempt to toughen its domestic anti-smuggling law and seek a formal accord with the European Union in a bid to contain the inflow of bogus refugee claimants, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Monday. The seven, representing many of the world's top recipient countries for asylum seekers, agreed to look for ways to accelerate the removal of failed claimants. As reported in the news.
@t eric besson, french counterpart