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Immigration System

: A Filipino caregiver degrading experience as a temporary foreign worker, according to Toronto Star. These three migrants are among those whose stories are featured in an innovative multimedia project that puts a human face on the impact of the drastic changes made by the Conservative government to the immigration and refugee system in the past decade. A Mexican journalist battle against Ottawa to prove her country inability to protect her. Their stories in videos, along with a detailed report released this week, are part of an initiative called Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration, led by Vancouver-based advocacy groups No One Is Illegal and S**tHarper Did. The entire immigration system has been overhauled by this government. Its purpose is to assess these reforms in the run-up to the Oct. 19 federal election. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.