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In Dublin, protesters clashed with police Tuesday evening outside a hotel housing asylum seekers where a young girl was reportedly attacked.

The agency says more than 22,000 people have been removed from the country in the last 12 months, and nearly 30,000 removals were "in progress" as of Oct. 31.

House Leader Steven MacKinnon says his government has 'accomplished an incredible amount' during the fall sitting, pointing to budget and crime bills which have yet to become law.

Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said Ottawa’s new restrictions on temporary foreign workers have left businesses facing severe labour shortages.

Thousands of demonstrators packed London streets for several blocks Saturday for a march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Trevor Livingstone, who runs a brewery near the U.S. border in Franklin, Que., says it's now common to see migrants hiding, detained by RCMP, or awaiting pickup.

“Even after submitting all the legal documents, what was the reason I got the refusal?” he asks. “What did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything wrong.”

As of July 27, over 3,000 asylum seekers had been processed at the Lacolle crossing, nearly triple the number recorded in June, according to the CBSA.

At the close of the Council of the Federation, Ford led the charge on behalf of the country’s premiers, lambasting the federal government for delays in processing asylum seekers.

At the end of a three-day leaders' summit in Huntsville, Ont., the country's premiers agreed to look at ways to use their constitutional powers to hand out work permits.

Data from Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board shows a sharp rise in the number of Americans applying for refugee status in Canada in the first half of the year.

Premier Doug Ford said his government would begin work to give asylum seekers the right to work immediately while their application to stay is processed.

Premiers last month said they would use their constitutional powers to seize more control over immigration and issue work permits.

The agreement, under which Rwanda would accept up to 250 migrants, was signed by U.S. and Rwandan officials in Kigali in June, a Rwandan official told Reuters.

The U.S. has sent a handful of immigrants to the African kingdom of Eswatini, where they have no ties, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Brad Lander has made several trips to immigration court recently, after DHS began dismissing asylum cases effectively 'stripping people of their asylum seeker status,' he says.

A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges Toronto violated refugee claimants’ Charter rights by denying them access to shelter beds for nearly a year.

Critics and advocacy groups are calling the wide-ranging border security legislation a threat to civil liberties in the immigration and asylum system.

The decision means the Netherlands will have a caretaker government when it hosts a summit of NATO leaders in three weeks as new elections are planned.

The proposed bill addresses Prime Minister Mark Carney's priorities and some of the long-standing complaints voiced by U.S. lawmakers, including President Donald Trump.