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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Romanian Nationals

Romanian Village Dept: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Wednesday that 85 people managed to sneak across the border in Quebec at different intervals, starting in February, according to CTV. Of those 85 people all Romas who came from the same Romanian village 35 are under the age of 16 and 30 others were detained under a new law designating them as irregular arrivals and government officials say they ve busted a human smuggling ring that illegally brought carloads of Romanian nationals across the U.S.-Canada border over a period of several months. Authorities have rounded up 40 people and 45 are still missing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.