Canada

Refugee Dept: Yet Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says Ottawa must to do more crack down on bogus refugees who are clogging up the system and costing taxpayers too much money, according to The Star. The minister tried this before. In March 2010, he brought in a bill almost identical to the one introduced last week. It would have done a relatively good job of filtering out would-be refugees who were not fleeing persecution or seeking asylum from violence, torture or cruel treatment. It would also have served as a deterrent to fraudsters hoping to manipulate Canada s refugee system. But it contained too few safeguards for applicants rejected after a cursory hearing and since the Conservatives took power six years ago, fewer of the immigrants arriving in Canada are coming as refugees. As a share of all newcomers, refugees have gone down from 13.7 per cent to 9.2 per cent. He is proposing legislation that would rapidly deport two types of refugee claimants: those who come to Canada as part of a part of an irregular arrival any vehicle or network suspected of smuggling people and those who come from countries he considers safe such as Hungary . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.