Immigration

Jason Kenney Dept: "Our intelligence agencies are aware of at least three, possibly four planned missions that were intended to travel to Canada which we have helped to successfully interrupt over the course of the past year," Kenney said, according to Montreal Gazette. The busts are in addition to last month's interception by Indonesian authorities of the MV Alicia carrying 84 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers destined for Canada, Kenney noted and authorities have thwarted as many as five migrant smuggling operations bound for Canada from Southeast Asia since efforts to combat the illegal practice were stepped up a year ago, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday from Thailand. "They're not necessarily boats in the water, but they were at various stages of planning and execution, including going as far as ferrying people out on fishing vessels to larger vessels." As reported in the news.
@t asylum seekers, indonesian authorities