facebook post: The agreement between Israel and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees would have removed the threat of forced expulsion of about 39,000 people to an unidentified African destination, widely believed to be Rwanda, according to National Observer. The mass deportation was set to begin April 1, but Netanyahu said Monday the plan was called off when it became clear the intended country would not be able to handle absorbing the deported population. Netanyahu revealed the sudden change in a Facebook post only hours after Israel announced it would scrap its plan to deport thousands of migrants and refugees mainly from Eritrea and Sudan after reaching a deal with the UN to send more than 16,000 of them to other countries. ; Canada had been one of the countries expected to resettle some of the asylum seekers, but it remained to be seen whether the Liberal government would increase the number of refugees from the area who were already destined to arrive here. Now, Netanyahu said he will consult further on the plan. Earlier Monday, he said discussions were ongoing with countries that could resettle asylum seekers. Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the UN refugee agency's representative in Canada, said he had no comment on the news that Netanyahu had changed his mind. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

identity: At the same time, Canadians value that abundance and see our waterways as integral to our national identity, according to National Observer. The 2017 RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study confirms that we take water for granted, typically viewing it as an unlimited and abundant resource. Why should Canadians care The 2017 RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study confirms we take water for granted, typically viewing it as an unlimited and abundant resource. At the same time, Canadians very much value that abundance and see our waterways as integral to our national identity. Canada holds a reputation for leadership in diplomacy, tolerance, respect, and multicultural generosity. Part of that identity is defined by our place on the international stage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

owner xun: Federal Court Judge Henry Brown sided with the appeal decision on Feb. 21, according to Vancouver Courier. According to Judge Brown s decision, Li, 49, originally came to Canada with her husband and two sons from China through Quebec's immigrant investor program in 2005. Xiao Qing Li, once an investor-class immigrant, has been deported after using Richmond-based New Can Consultings Ltd., an unlicensed immigration consulting firm, and Wellong International Investments, whose owner Xun Sunny Wang received a seven-year prison sentence in October 2015 for committing tax evasion and fraud by creating fake passports for wealthy Chinese nationals.article continues below Trending Stories Shauna Sylvester is running for mayor of Vancouver Cruise ship from hell' arrives in Victoria for refit Seniors' discount returns to B.C. FerriesA Times Square-style video screen is coming to Broadway and Kingswayrelated Four more Richmond immigration fraudsters sentenced Li, the owner of an 8-million West Vancouver mansion, exhausted her efforts to stay in Canada after applying for a judicial review of her unsuccessful appeal of a deportation order, in June, 2017. They were declared permanent residents in December 2006. In 2011, Li and her sons applied to renew their permanent resident cards, using New Can, which fraudulently facilitated false employment and other documents for expired permanent resident cards and did so for Li according to Judge Brown. But just 10 days later, the family returned to China and over the next seven years, they only intermittently visited Canada, according to the court decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

page report: Canada should also consider granting refugee and resettlement status to Myanmar's persecuted ethnic Rohingya, 700,000 of whom have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape a brutal campaign by Myanmar's military, he said, according to National Observer. The 39-page report is noticeably silent on another major issue how to address Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto political leader who has been widely criticized for not speaking out against the atrocities being committed against the Rohingya. Rae, who was appointed Canada's special envoy to the seven-month-old Rohingya crisis, made that remark as he released his final report today on the troubles engulfing Myanmar and Bangladesh. ; He said Canada needs to step up its spending on the mass migration crisis and should play a leading role in the investigation by the International Criminal Court of possible war crimes. Rae told a news conference on Parliament Hill that he wishes she would act. I don't exclude anybody from that, Rae said. Whoever is found responsible, whether in the civilian government or the military government, for what has happened should be held responsible. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

capital: While the Conservatives initially refused to follow Trump's lead in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, they changed their tune at the Manning Centre's Networking Conference in early February, according to Rabble. A few weeks later, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's office articulated the party's new policy via a bold webpage. The issue has no direct bearing on Canadians, but is sure to be leveraged for maximum symbolic value in the run up to next year's federal elections. Scheer spokesperson Jake Enwright made the Conservatives' electoral intents clear, stating, If Canadians want a government who will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, we want their support to recognize that. When releasing historic Palestine from British colonial rule after World War II, the UN General Assembly had the wisdom to designate Jerusalem as an international city, to be administered by the United Nations. The problem is, such an approach will further undermine everything Canada and its diplomatic partners have striven to achieve in the Middle East over the past 70 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dem laws: Act now Congress, our country is being stolen! U.S. President Donald Trump wrote in a series of sometimes-misleading tweets, fired off after returning from a holiday weekend spent in Florida with several immigration hardliners, according to CTV. Trump also declared protections for so-called Dreamer immigrants dead, claimed the U.S. has no effective border laws and warned Mexico to halt the passage of caravans of illegal immigrants or risk retribution. Border Patrol Agents and ICE are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws don't allow them to do their job. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL! he wrote. The 1.3 trillion funding package included 1.6 billion in border wall spending, but much of that money can be used only to repair existing segments, not to build new sections. Trump has been seething over immigration since realizing the major spending bill he signed last month barely funds the big, beautiful border wall he has promised his supporters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

eritrean migrants: In addition to the resettlement, other African migrants in the southern part of Tel-Aviv were to be relocated to other parts of Israel, given legal status and offered job training, according to CTV. However, Israel's President Benjamin Netanyahu took to Facebook hours later to say that he is suspending the agreement pending further consideration. The agreement between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR and Israel, was to have around 16,000 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants relocated to receiving countries using resettlement, private sponsorships, and scholarships. UNHCR Representative in Canada, Jean-Nicolas Beuze, told CTV News that western countries like Canada, would be among those bringing in these asylum-seekers. So we hope that this will continue and that the number may eventually increase in the short-term, Beuze said on CTV Power Play. There is a long tradition here in Canada, to have private sponsors helping refugees to come to Canada and settle there. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration judge: Last week, a U.S. immigration judge withdrew the order to remove Carrillo from the country after Carrillo proved that he would be persecuted if he returned to Mexico, said his attorney, Hedi Framm-Anton, according to Metro News. Welcome home! the crowd cheered as Carrillo held his daughter in his arms. Fernando Carrillo walked out of a U.S. immigration office in San Francisco and hugged his wife and daughter as dozens of supporters cheered around him. I'm extremely happy and thankful to all the people, my family and God, Carrillo said after his release. Framm-Anton didn't provide specific information about what claims Carrillo made in court but told the Mercury News that the argument was based on his blood relationship with a family member in Mexico who is involved in fighting a certain type of crime. I just don't believe it yet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration loopholes: Among the measures they want Congress to address ending special safeguards that prevent the immediate deportation of children travelling alone from countries that don't border the U.S. They also want Congress to terminate a 1997 court settlement that requires the government to release children from custody to caretakers while their cases are making their way through immigration court, according to Metro News. The proposals appear the same as those included on a White House wish list on immigration that was released in October. Trump administration officials are working on a new package of legislation aimed at closing what they describe as immigration loopholes. It's unclear, however, whether there is any appetite in Congress for such changes, especially now that the president has said he is no longer interested in protecting young Dreamer immigrants from deportation. 2 05 p.m. Freedom Partners is backed by the wealthy Charles and David Koch. Political groups backed by the conservative Koch brothers are criticizing President Donald Trump for declaring that an effort to protect young immigrants from deportation is dead. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugees: Canada along with Italy and Germany had been one of the countries expected to resettle some of the asylum seekers, but it remained to be seen whether the Liberal government would increase the number of refugees from the area who were already destined to arrive here, according to Toronto Star. The agreement between Israel and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees would have removed the threat of forced expulsion of about 39,000 people to an unidentified African destination, widely believed to be Rwanda. Netanyahu revealed the sudden change in a Facebook post only hours after Israel announced it would scrap its plan to deport thousands of migrants and refugees mainly from Eritrea and Sudan following a deal with the United Nations to send more than 16,000 of them to other countries. Read more Article Continued Below Israeli PM backtracks on deal to resettle African migrants in western countries, including Canada Israel gives thousands of African migrants a choice go to jail, or be deported to a country you've never seen before The mass deportation was set to begin Sunday, but Netanyahu said Monday the plan was called off when it became clear the intended country would not be able to absorb the deported population. react-empty 144 Now, Netanyahu said he will consult further on the plan. That's our focus at the moment, Hursh Jaswal said Monday. Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the UN refugee agency's representative in Canada, said he had no comment on the news that Netanyahu had changed his mind.A spokesman for Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Canada is currently focusing its efforts on clearing the backlog of Eritrean and Sudanese refugees in Israel who are already expected to be resettled here through the private sponsorship program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

marketing professor: The last of the questions has been asked a ton of times by a ton of different people, including at least one other major polling and marketing firm in the country, said Laurence Ashworth, an associate marketing professor at Queen's University, according to Toronto Star. Just a quick search and I have seen the questions in published academic papers. The apology came after Lacey Willmott, a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, complained to Aimia about its shopping and life habits questionnaire because she found it problematic when it asked her if too much immigration threatens the purity of the country, whether getting married and having children is the only real way of having a family, whether men have a certain natural superiority over women, and nothing can change this and if the father of the family must be master in his own house. I can't say that about all of them, but it absolutely would not surprise me. Article Continued Below Aimia spokesperson Christa Poole said in an emailed statement that the questions came from CROP, a Montreal-based marketing research company, which did not respond to the Canadian Press's request for comment. He said he's also seen survey questions elsewhere covering views around sensitive topics like abortion and self-worth. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

religion jesus: If the concept of High Holidays were common in Christendom, Easter's Holy Week would be it, according to Rabble. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. While you're at it, consider by whom it's being waged. He was killed because, in the words of Canada's greatest poet, Milton Acorn, born 95 years ago Good Friday last, he tried to use words to break the rods and blunt the axes of Rome. Fast forward two millennia, give or take a few years, from the ugly crucifixion in occupied Palestine by the soldiers of Rome -- many followers of the rival cult of Mithras -- to the religion Jesus possibly unintentionally founded. Sudden death, by cross or drone, is always the risk when an aspiring religious leader takes on the official religion and power of a mighty empire. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

research: The survey asked Aeroplan members several questions about shopping and travel, before moving onto questions about their social views, according to CTV. One of the questions asked whether immigration threatened the purity of the country, another asked whether fathers should be considered the head of households, and whether traditional marriage was the only way to form a family. But the president of the market research firm behind the survey insists that bold questions are the best way to capture a person's true beliefs, and that scrapping those questions would forfeit years of important research tracking the rise and fall of intolerance in Canada. Several users complained about the tone of the questions on Twitter, prompting Aeroplan to respond that it would be deleting all of the data collected from the poll. We apologize for sending it out and will be deleting all of the data collected from it. This survey in no way reflects our opinions or values, the company said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sprints: They find the body, according to Toronto Star. Dead. I thought no one goes there this time of year, he says to his deputy, Nestor Rosario Rick Gomez as they drive over. Then Jude spies another body a little girl. She's alive. He sprints over. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

voter fatigue: The Liberals have been in power since 2003, aside from a brief PQ minority government between 2012 and 2014, and their major fear is voter fatigue with their brand, according to National Observer. Jean-Francois Lisee's PQ, currently in third place in the polls, is struggling to get attention and has positioned itself as the big-government mainstream choice in a province already known for its public-spending largesse. With the Oct. 1 election now six months away, Francois Legault's nationalist Coalition Avenir Quebec is riding high in public opinion polls. ; Recent surveys have suggested the Coalition would have formed a minority government or obtained a slim majority if the election had been held when they were conducted. Taking current polling at face value can be misleading, however, because the Liberals' spring budget has proven popular, the PQ cannot be entirely counted out, and recent events have indicated the Coalition is vulnerable with its strong nationalist rhetoric. We did exactly what we said we were going to do, Couillard said recently about his party's 2014 campaign promises. Philippe Couillard's Liberals have entered spring on a high note after tabling a fourth consecutive balanced budget one that cuts business taxes and aims to aggressively pay down the province's high debt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

basilica: Peter's Basilica to a packed square of some 80,000 faithful below, according to The Chronicle Herald. The pontiff said the message of the resurrection offers hope in a world marked by so many acts of injustice and violence, including parts of Africa affected by hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism. Francis reflected on the power of Christianity's core belief that Jesus rose from the dead following crucifixion in his formal Urbi et Orbi Easter message delivered from the balcony of St. It bears fruits of hope and dignity where there are deprivation and exclusion, hunger and unemployment; where there are migrants and refugees, so often rejected by today's culture of waste, and victims of the drug trade, human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, the pope said. The pope also urged reconciliation in Israel, a place experiencing in these days the wounds of ongoing conflict that do not spare the defenceless. Francis called for a swift end to the seven years of carnage in Syria, demanding that aid be delivered to the war-torn country's needy and calling for fitting conditions for the returned and the displaced. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bulls: Red Bulls goalkeeper Luis Robles appeared to have Sutter's shot covered, but the redirection off Colman's shoulder put Robles out of position, according to Metro News. Colman was credited with the goal. Scott Sutter's shot deflected off Josue Colman for the go-ahead goal in the 86th minute, sending Orlando City past the New York Red Bulls 4-3 Saturday for its first victory this season. Dom Dwyer had two goals for Orlando City 1-2-1 . His first was a header that made it 2-2 in the 26th minute. Aaron Long pulled the Red Bulls 2-2-0 even in the 82nd minute with a short header to finish Marc Rzatkowski's free kick.GALAXY 4, LAFC 3CARSON, Calif. His second was a low hard blast off a throw-in that put his team up 3-2 in the 48th minute. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

data-sharing agreement: In letters recently made public, politicians sparred with immigration officials over a data-sharing agreement quietly signed in 2016 that gives the government access to personal information collected by the country's family doctors, according to Metro News. Medical details are excluded.A parliamentary health committee condemned the situation as unacceptable, calling for the agreement to be suspended. Doctors who work with refugees and asylum-seekers have described the move as a major breach of medical ethics, saying it isn't up to physicians to enforce immigration rules. But Britain's immigration department has dismissed those concerns, arguing that such data sharing allows the U.K. to remove people who might pose a danger to the public. We understand the government has a job to do, but going into health records to get patient information is not OK, said Lucy Jones, director of programs at Doctors of the World U.K. The idea that any patient information is being shared with a government body immediately breaks their trust in a doctor-patient relationship. Medical workers back the health committee's viewpoint. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

grant visas: The State Department has ended an Obama-era program to grant visas to foreign entrepreneurs who want to start companies in the United States, according to CTV. It is more aggressively scrutinizing visas to skilled workers from other countries. In the meantime, his administration is busy making it harder, not easier, for skilled migrants to come work in the United States. And it is contemplating ending a provision that allows spouses of those skilled workers to be employed in the U.S. The administration and its backers contend it's trying to fix flaws in the existing, employer-centric skilled immigration system while advocating for a complete overhaul of America's immigration system. They're rolling back some of the extralegal measures that other administrations have taken. The stuff that they're actually doing is not so much restricting skilled immigration as enforcing the law, said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports reducing immigration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mexican authorities: Trump also criticized Mexican authorities as being too lax about border security, saying the U.S.-Mexico border was getting more dangerous, according to Toronto Star. He threatened to stop the North American Free Trade Agreement if Mexico does not stop the big drug and people flows. U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that there would be no deal to legalize the status of millions of dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, stating that the U.S. border with Mexico was getting more dangerous and directing congressional Republicans to pass tough new anti-immigration legislation. In fiery Sunday morning tweets, sent an hour after he wished Americans a HAPPY EASTER and minutes before he attended a church service here, Trump vowed, NO MORE DACA DEAL. As he walked into an Episcopal service at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea with wife Melania and daughter Tiffany, Trump elaborated on his position on immigration to the traveling pool of reporters. Article Continued Below A lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of DACA, Trump said. He accused congressional Democrats of stymieing a potential deal to protect dreamers, after Trump canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last fall. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

richmond home: At the outset I want to make it clear that I accept Mr, according to Vancouver Courier. Steve's apology as sincere and believe that he will reflect more closely in future public statements.I have believed for a long time that Richmond is uniquely positioned to represent the Canada we are all so proud of. Steve's remarks as a learning opportunity. The ethnic and cultural mix in Richmond is unmatched in Canada. In short, Richmond represents the world and for the most part people have lived in harmony. Those calling Richmond home include the decendents of the first Europeans to settle here, a vibrant South Asian population, people from all over China, Japan and the Philippines. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

voter fatigue: The Liberals have been in power since 2003, aside from a brief PQ minority government between 2012 and 2014, and their major fear is voter fatigue with their brand, according to Vancouver Courier. Jean-Francois Lisee's PQ, currently in third place in the polls, is struggling to get attention and has positioned itself as the big-government mainstream choice in a province already known for its public-spending largesse. With the Oct. 1 election now six months away, Francois Legault's nationalist Coalition Avenir Quebec is riding high in public opinion polls.article continues below Trending Stories Downtown Vancouver to Seattle flights imminent Thirty people too violent for Vancouver detox Suspect on the loose after teen robbed in West Vancouver drug deal Yet another mortar turns up on the North Shore Recent surveys have suggested the Coalition would have formed a minority government or obtained a slim majority if the election had been held when they were conducted. Taking current polling at face value can be misleading, however, because the Liberals' spring budget has proven popular, the PQ cannot be entirely counted out, and recent events have indicated the Coalition is vulnerable with its strong nationalist rhetoric. We did exactly what we said we were going to do, Couillard said recently about his party's 2014 campaign promises. Philippe Couillard's Liberals have entered spring on a high note after tabling a fourth consecutive balanced budget one that cuts business taxes and aims to aggressively pay down the province's high debt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

department: Lawyers for the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for sheltering children who illegally enter the country unaccompanied by a parent, have said the department has a policy of refusing to facilitate abortions, according to Metro News. And the director of the office that oversees the shelters has said he believes teens in his agency's care have no constitutional right to abortion. The order covers pregnant minors being held in federal custody after entering the country illegally. The American Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit on behalf of the minors, which the judge overseeing the case also Friday allowed to go forward as a class action lawsuit. The government can appeal the judge's order. We have been able to secure justice for these young pregnant women in government custody who will no longer be subject to the government's policy of coercion and obstruction while the case continues, said ACLU attorney Brigitte Amiri after the judge's order became public. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

crime gangs: It says he arrived in the country on a tourist visa on Feb. 24, according to Metro News. Saturday's statement says Villani was involved in illicit activities, but gives no details. The Morelos state prosecutor's office says in a statement that the body of 37-year-old Alberto Villani was found March 20 in the municipality of Tlaltizapan. Morelos is one of the states plagued by organized crime gangs. Three other Italian citizens disappeared in the north-central state of Jalisco in January and have not yet been found. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

gratton: The lack of information has been unsettling for Gratton, who says the fog around his wife's final moments has left him with an open wound, according to Toronto Star. I just want answers, you know he said. None of the authorities involved not the jail, not the coroner and not the Canada Border Services Agency, which was holding his wife as an immigration detainee has told him how the woman with whom he had shared his life for more than 30 years came to be found in medical distress in her cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter. I'm just trying to figure out what happened. Article Continued Below Teresa Michelle Gratton died Oct. 30 while being indefinitely detained in a maximum-security jail by the Canada Border Services Agency. Teresa Michelle Gratton, a 50-year-old grandmother, died Oct. 30 at the maximum-security Vanier Centre for Women, where she was being indefinitely detained not because she was criminally charged or sentenced, but because Canada's border police, the CBSA, wanted to deport her, and they believed she would not show up for her immigration hearing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mls game: The superstar Swedish forward scored twice in his first MLS game to cap the Los Angeles Galaxy's comeback from three goals down to beat LAFC 4-3 on Saturday, according to Metro News. I gave them Zlatan, Ibrahimovic said. Zlatan Ibrahimovic couldn't have scripted his Hollywood debut any better. Ibrahimovic won it in the opening seconds of stoppage time with a header off a cross by Ashley Cole to send a sold-out Stub Hub Center into hysterics. Ibrahimovic's first goal in America was more audacious, scoring on a 40-yard kick when he caught LAFC goalkeeper Tyler Miller off his line to tie the score 3-3 in the 77th minute. After that, I was like, 'Just stop the game now.' I don't want to feel any more adrenaline, Ibrahimovic said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.