Migrant Workers and Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: Last Thursday, Jason Kenney announced a moratorium on new and pending permits of migrant workers in the fast food and restaurant sector . This is a mass deportation order, according to Rabble. The ex-immigration minister and now employment minister Jason Kenney has been on a war path since 2008, systematically shutting out refugees, spouses, permanent residents and citizens. To do so, he has fanned the flames of xenophobia and racism coining terms such as " bogus refugees ," " marriages fraud ," " birth tourism ," " human smugglers " and " foreign criminals ." In 2012, the Conservative government cancelled over 250,000 permanent residency applications without processing them . New refugee laws passed at the end of 2012 have halved the total number of refugee applicants in the country -- in essence excluding 10,000 people . Laws passed in 2011 will mean that migrant workers who have been here for four years or more will face deportation in January 2015 . Add to that the nearly 90,000 people deported under Harper regime -- we are witnessing an enormous wave of mass deportations and exclusion and International Workers Day Statement by No One Is Illegal Toronto and No One Is Illegal Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory Though exact numbers are as yet unknown, there were 44,000 Labour Market Opinions in the food and accommodation sector issued in 2012. Thus, approximately that many migrants will be shut out this year. Migrants abroad with pending applications have also likely paid recruiters thousands of dollars to come to Canada . To do so, many have gone into immense debt that they will not be able to get out of. Workers already here will be unable to change jobs and apply for new LMOs in the sector, leaving them tied to potentially abusive employers . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.