Asylum Seekers Canada

• Montreal family fighting deportation to Nigeria can stay for now, advocates say

  Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Adegboye and her husband have worked as orderlies providing health care to vulnerable patients.

  Canada

  Apr 2
  
• Housing asylum seekers at Niagara hotels cost Canada more than $100 million

  Newly released figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada show the federal government spent more than $100 million housing asylum seekers at hotels.

  Canada

  Mar 26
  
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• Trudeau rejects Quebec’s ask for total powers on immigration

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to give Quebec total control over immigration, as tensions between the province and Ottawa deepen over an influx of asylum seekers.

  Canada

  Mar 15
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• Ottawa poised to restore visa requirements for Mexicans, Quebec says

  The Quebec government says it has been told by Ottawa that the federal government plans to bring back visa requirements for Mexican nationals.

  Canada

  Feb 28
• Toronto getting $143 million in federal funding for asylum seeker shelter support

  Earlier this week, Immigration Minister Marc Miller had announced Ottawa would spend $362 million to help cities and provinces house asylum seekers.

  Canada

  Feb 2
• Asylum seekers coming through Montreal airport in record numbers

  Roxham Road, an unofficial border crossing, might be closed but asylum seekers have found another way to enter Canada in record numbers: Montreal's Trudeau Airport.

  Politics

  Feb 1
• Ottawa commits $362M to help provinces, municipalities house asylum seekers

  The new funding will come from the Interim Housing Assistance Program, which assists provincial and municipal governments with the costs of operating shelter spaces for refugees.

  Canada

  Jan 31
• Influx of asylum claimants flooding shelters, social services in Ottawa

  Femi Biobaku is just one of nearly 92,000 asylum claimants who fled to Canada in 2022, and around 70,000 more have arrived since, according to the federal government.

  Canada

  Aug 28, 2023
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• Canada can jail asylum seekers indefinitely — but now there’s a movement to change that

  Asylum seekers in Canada say they've experienced severe mental health issues while in immigration detention, including depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts

  Investigations

  Oct 14, 2022
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• More asylum-seekers crossing into Canada after ban lifted, stats show

  In December the number of asylum-seekers entering Canada outside formal land border crossings reached its highest point since August 2017, government statistics show.

  Canada

  Apr 25, 2022