Immigration Officials Says that It’s Fraudulent to Grant Passport to Babies Born to Non-Resident Parents in Canada

Immigration Officials Says that It’s Fraudulent to Grant Passport to Babies Born to Non-Resident Parents in Canada

One of the top immigrant officials of Canada has mentioned that the so-called passport babies are a genuine problem in certain parts of the Canadian locales.  It is necessary to close the loophole which is being exploited by some pregnant foreign tourists to curtail the fraud practice.

A former Director General of Citizenship and Immigration has said that the policy resolution passed by the conservatives will end the practice of offering citizenship to babies born in the country is just like using the hammer to squash a fly.

Delegates have endorsed a resolution to put an end to the policy of providing a birthright citizenship claiming that too many people are traveling to Canada simply to give birth and obtain the status for their children.  Party members  have voted to rewrite the key section of the nationality law in Canada. However, the resolution is non-binding for the future government.

Proponents of change that have been introduced by the delegates from Labrador and Newfoundland have said that the move is important for cracking down the foreigners who are traveling here to secure the privileges and perks for their kids who come with being a Canadian.  The change is going to depend on a section of the Canadian Law which has been made intact with the advent of the distinct Canadian citizenship.

Conflicting Statistics

Canada is one among the few developed countries which grants citizenship to any child that is born on its soil irrespective of the immigrant status of the parents. It has some exceptions, such as the children of the foreign diplomats are excluded. This is creating a problem as only 300 babies were born in this country while 2000 were born to the non-Canadian mothers. This phenomenon has become pretty common.  It is crowding the facilities and the space which is available to the residents of Canada.

The Director General has said that he doesn’t want to see birth tourism happen but on the practical side abolishing the birthright citizenship is simply creating inconvenience for the millions of Canadian for addressing a small problem. He has suggested means like asking the hospitals to make the non-residents pay more money for covering the medical expenses. Also, changes in the policy of offering visas can also be made. The visa officials can refuse entry to people if they suspect that the person is traveling to Canada just to give birth.

B.C. Birthing Houses

There has also been a significant rise in the number of birthing houses which hosts pregnant tourists who will give birth to a Canadian baby. Officials are also planning to put some regulations on these birthing houses or to put a ban on them. These houses are an abuse of the system and the policy. Measures should be taken that are more targeted and focused rather than a wholesale change.

According to MP Alice Wong, passport babies can take away the resources from their system. Moreover, it is also dangerous for the mother and child. As a matter of fact, the liberals have also supported this.

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Immigration Officials Says that It’s Fraudulent to Grant Passport to Babies Born to Non-Resident Parents in Canada

Immigration Officials Says that It’s Fraudulent to Grant Passport to Babies Born to Non-Resident Parents in Canada

One of the top immigrant officials of Canada has mentioned that the so-called passport babies are a genuine problem in certain parts of the Canadian locales.  It is necessary to close the loophole which is being exploited by some pregnant foreign tourists to curtail the fraud practice.

A former Director General of Citizenship and Immigration has said that the policy resolution passed by the conservatives will end the practice of offering citizenship to babies born in the country is just like using the hammer to squash a fly.

Delegates have endorsed a resolution to put an end to the policy of providing a birthright citizenship claiming that too many people are traveling to Canada simply to give birth and obtain the status for their children.  Party members  have voted to rewrite the key section of the nationality law in Canada. However, the resolution is non-binding for the future government.

Proponents of change that have been introduced by the delegates from Labrador and Newfoundland have said that the move is important for cracking down the foreigners who are traveling here to secure the privileges and perks for their kids who come with being a Canadian.  The change is going to depend on a section of the Canadian Law which has been made intact with the advent of the distinct Canadian citizenship.

Conflicting Statistics

Canada is one among the few developed countries which grants citizenship to any child that is born on its soil irrespective of the immigrant status of the parents. It has some exceptions, such as the children of the foreign diplomats are excluded. This is creating a problem as only 300 babies were born in this country while 2000 were born to the non-Canadian mothers. This phenomenon has become pretty common.  It is crowding the facilities and the space which is available to the residents of Canada.

The Director General has said that he doesn’t want to see birth tourism happen but on the practical side abolishing the birthright citizenship is simply creating inconvenience for the millions of Canadian for addressing a small problem. He has suggested means like asking the hospitals to make the non-residents pay more money for covering the medical expenses. Also, changes in the policy of offering visas can also be made. The visa officials can refuse entry to people if they suspect that the person is traveling to Canada just to give birth.

B.C. Birthing Houses

There has also been a significant rise in the number of birthing houses which hosts pregnant tourists who will give birth to a Canadian baby. Officials are also planning to put some regulations on these birthing houses or to put a ban on them. These houses are an abuse of the system and the policy. Measures should be taken that are more targeted and focused rather than a wholesale change.

According to MP Alice Wong, passport babies can take away the resources from their system. Moreover, it is also dangerous for the mother and child. As a matter of fact, the liberals have also supported this.

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What is the Right Term for the Border Crossers of Canada?

What is the Right Term for the Border Crossers of Canada?

A recent increase in the asylum seekers of Canada who are crossing Canada-U.S border have led to the discussion about what to call them. Some of the people have to say that they are illegal immigrants. While on the other hand other people refer to irregular crossing because of the entries that happen away from the official border points.

The representative in Canada for UN High Commissioner for the refugees says that people should not be qualified as illegal. They are actually regular arrivals.  They might enter irregular. However, there is nothing irregular when you are crossing an international border in order to claim an asylum.  It is very clear in the act of The Immigration and Refugees Protection Act that it is also applicable to the people who transit through some other country.

Conservative MPs have to say that the act of crossing the border is quite illegal. This is an offence under the custom’s act.  This is the reason this is the term that they are going to use.

It is illegal to enter Canada a non-official point of entry. There is no debate regarding whatsoever. The problem arises from the fact that people are coming, illegally crossing the border. Thereafter, they claim the asylum. The officials will not be able to do anything about since the people are allowed to claim the asylum in Canada if when they have entered the country illegally.

The Debate

The law is quite specific when it comes to this. It states that when a person comes through irregular or regular crossing for seeking asylum they are actually doing it as per Canadian law of section 133 of Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The Immigration Minister has explained that the reason he has used both regular and irregular for describing the border crossing which happen in between the official point of entry.

Any person who crosses the Canadian border from United States in between the port of entry is surely committing an illegal act. However, when the person claims the asylum, the charge stays pending for determining his/her refugee claim.

Once a person is on the Canadian soil, the charge of crossing irregularly will stay pending prior to the determination of the asylum claim.  A spokesperson for the Public Safety mentions that Canadian law is consistent with the United Nation Convention on Refugees. This indicates that the refugees entering illegally to look for the asylum shouldn’t be penalized if they are presenting themselves to the authorities. In case the refugee claim has been denied, the failed claimant has to leave Canada. As a matter of fact, the claimants might have to face charges for the other crimes. Each of them is assesses for national security and criminality as they are stopped on the northern side of the border.  The prosecutors decide whether they will lay the charge. Anyone who is convicted to the crime can be sentenced to ten years or more than ineligible claim of asylum in Canada.

In between January to July 2018, around one percent of the asylum seekers who have entered in an irregular way have been charged with a criminal code defenses.  There is no charge against claimants who have entered Quebec irregularly. However, who entered Canada irregularly have been removed but the claim of large majority is still being processed.

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Canada: Requirement for North Immigration Strategy

Canada: Requirement for North Immigration Strategy

The modern approach of Canada towards immigration makes two capital mistakes. Firstly, it assumes that immigration in this present century is a southern Canadian phenomenon. This means that most people are invariably going to move to the southern cities like Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Secondly, Canadian immigration has to turn almost exclusively on an economic demand.

Demand for People in North America

There have been reports of continuous and aggressive ice- melting in the Arctic during the summer season. This is part of long term and accelerating trend which serves to confirm that Canada is going to need many more people in the Northern part in the coming years.

In simple words, Canadian immigration and migration in this century is going to be mainly northern in character. This is going to be driven more by the geopolitics and national strategy than the conventional economic considerations.

The settlement of the southern border in later half of 19^th and 20^th century presages what is supposed to come. In comparison to the present day mythology regarding people having populated the 49^th parallel just because it is comparatively warm or because majority of the trade runs with the American neighbors, Canada’s southern settlement’s original logic was basically military in nature.

The U.S. is the natural enemy of Canada and the population of Canada followed the fortifications lines along Canada and U.S. border which was supported by the rail lines gradually spanning the entire expanse of the large country along the east-west axis.

Economics

The economics actually followed the strategic logic and not the reverse. If people are to survive as a country for the balance of the century and have a hope of managing large Arctic and northern real estate which will be exposed and to be contested by the virtue of ice-melt of Arctic. Thereafter, economics will again have to follow a strategic logic.

However, Canadians might not even remember how to do a strategy.

Two Artic Giants

There are mainly two Arctic giants in this present century living irrespective of people like it or not in extreme strategic juxtaposition: Russia and Canada.

On the Russian Side of the Artic Ledger, there are around 2 million people residing in Far Russian North with all supporting expertise and infrastructure commended by a demographic mass. Between 200,000 and 300,000 people living in the leading northern cities such a Yakutsk, Norilsk, and Murmansk. The large Siberian belt underlying the Arctic base in Russia has a population of around 40 million people.

Again on the Canadian side of the ledger, across three Northern territories, there is a total population of about 115,000. Below the territories across ten provinces, the quasi-northern population of the country to be less than two million.

In fact, people of the northern territories have less than one percent people who are actively thinking about or even working on the northern border.

To say the truth, it is difficult to control, manage, and protect the north which includes the environmental terms along with paltry demographic resources. Even if Russia and the other Arctic countries are not taken as future threat, there are not enough people in and when it comes to surviving multilateral or bilateral processes regarding how to manage the north in our interest and also on their terms.