Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Canada

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act Dept: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the foreign nationals, all of whom come from one district in Romania, went to Mexico, then crossed the Mexico-U.S. border illegally and drove to Canada, crossing at Stanstead, Que. Kenney spoke to reporters in Stanstead Wednesday, according to CBC. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews designated the border crossings as irregular arrivals, triggering a new provision of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that allows detention for irregular or mass arrivals. Under the new provision, those detained get a two-week review, at which point the government will try to determine if they are admissible to Canada as refugee claimants. Prior criminal convictions, for example, would disqualify them and police and border officials have busted an Ontario-based human smuggling operation, detaining 30 people. "Unfortunately, there are criminal organizations that from time to time seek to abuse our immigration laws and profit from that abuse," he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.