Canada to be the new safe destination for migrants

Canada, December 17: The fact that Canada is a very hospitable country is being reinstated by the recent announcement made by the country that it will become the safe place for migrants the world over. 

The announcement came after many countries have been shunting out migrants from their boundaries. Some of these countries include Australia, Japan and Spain. All these have been reducing their immigration targets so as to protect their extremely delicate labor markets. And they are asking the foreign workers to just leave for their own respective countries. 

The only exception to this general phenomenon being adopted increasing countries happens to be Canada. No wonder, it is raising serious concerns among the border officials that the generosity and the sympathetic attitude towards the migrants rejected from various other countries will make Canada a favored destination for migrants. 

According to a highly sensitive intelligence document not meant for public, a large number of migrants, including legal as well as illegal, from not just Latin America but also from Asia, Africa and even Eastern Europe will head towards Canada as compared to US or Western Europe. 

However, the official spokesman for Jason Kenney, the Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Alykhan Velshi, has warned that Canada must keep a strict vigil on those trying to migrate to the country in illegally. In the year 2008, there was a considerable increase in the asylum seekers in Canada and the numbers were feared to increase even further until several visa restrictions were imposed in 2009 for migrants from the Czech Republic and Mexico, revealed Velshi.

Velshi added that Canada cannot allow the creation of a two-tier immigration system in the country. 

As unemployment is likely to rise up to 10 percent in several developed countries and may stay there for nearly eight years or more, so the ones likely to be effected most will be those having a temporary status. 

As jobs do a disappearing act following global recession, immigration quotas are being increasingly lowered by many countries. All this has led to an anti-immigrant feeling. 

So, the best decision, as asserted by the Canada Border Services Agency’s report, for Canada would be to not to reduce immigration quota but to integrate Canada’s temporary foreign workers, stated Richard Kurland, an immigration lawyer. 

The forecast is that the highly secret document will unfold unrest in the home countries of the migrants especially as the remittances by the migrants will decline resulting in accelerating the rate of poverty in the migrant’s home countries. This will, in turn, increase incidence of crime and human smuggling. 

So, the solution to this problem is to protect foreign workers in Canada to increase the growth of the country.