Canada Border Services Agency: Ethnic Roma

Canada Dept: The report says many of the claims appear to be part of an organized effort to exploit Canada's social safety net, according to CBC. The partially redacted report , obtained by News, draws largely on an intelligence operation dubbed Project Sara, which investigated allegations of fraud and criminality among some Hungarian claimants in 2011, most of whom claimed to be ethnic Roma, and the effect of their activities on social services and communities in the Greater Toronto Area and an intelligence report completed last year by the Canada Border Services Agency warns of "significant" levels of welfare fraud and other crimes committed by a surging number of Hungarian refugee claimants to Canada. Refugee advocates and leaders from the Roma community say the report is an example of unfair racial profiling that exaggerates the level of crime and fraud relative to the Roma population, and furthers negative stereotypes based on ethnicity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.