Human Smugglers: Unsafe Vessels

Refugee Status Dept: But it is also intended, he said, to assure the U.S. government that Canada is taking the steps necessary to control the border at a time when the two governments are negotiating new economic and security agreements, according to Globe And Mail. Under the legislation, irregular-arrival claimants who do obtain refugee status would be prohibited from obtaining permanent-resident status or from sponsoring family members for five years, and could be returned to their homeland if conditions there improve and the purpose of the legislation, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said in an interview, is to make Canada less desirable as a destination for migrants who sometimes pay tens of thousands of dollars to human smugglers to travel here on unsafe vessels, such as the roughly 500 who arrived on the Sun Sea and Ocean Lady in 2009 and 2010. “We’re doing this for our own reasons, to maintain the integrity of our immigration and refugee systems,” Mr. Kenney said. “But there is no doubt it has the added advantage of building confidence with our American friends with respect to continental security.” As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, immigration and refugee