Queue Jumper: Asylum Seekers

Uproar Dept: The uproar prompted members of the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security to recommend the Conservatives clarify for Canadians the differences between immigrants and asylum-seekers, newly obtained documents show, according to The Star. The Public Safety Department, the ministry responsible for the roundtable, could not say what had been done in response to the recommendation and oTTAWA The tone of public discussion about the arrival of hundreds of Tamil migrants by sea last year was "regrettable," a federal advisory panel quietly told the government. Roundtable members want Canadians to realize that not everybody who shows up "is necessarily illegal or a queue-jumper," said lawyer and teacher Leo Adler, a member since the body's inception six years ago. As reported in the news.
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