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Photo credit: Toronto Star Canada Border Services Agency has launched a mobile app to track permanent residents, foreign nationals and refugee claimants who are required to report to border agents while awaiting deportations or final decisions on their immigration status in Canada. Toronto Star reports that the ReportIn app, uses facial recognition technology and location data to confirm identity…

Photo credit: CBC A coalition of mainly Black-led groups amended Friday that the city adopts recommendations from a report critical of its refusal to let refugee claimants access beds in its homeless shelter system in 2022 and 2023. CBC reports that the report by Ombudsman Kwamme Addo, released last week, found that the city’s decision to stop allowing…

Photo credit: CBC The University of Waterloo community is mourning the killing of two Palestinian sisters after they were accepted into a PhD program at the southern Ontario school. CBC reports that the sisters, Sally and Ghazi Ibaid, 26, died in a bombing this month amid the Israel-Hamas war. Their family says they had hopes of…

Photo credit: CNN  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants last fiscal year, marking the highest level of deportations since 2014, according to a newly released report. CNN reports that although President-elect Donald Trump has rebuked President Joe Biden’s immigration policy while vowing to make mass deportations a cornerstone of his administration, the latest ICE…

Photo credit: AP News A new immigration policy adopted by the US San Diego County Board of Supervisors was supposed to stop jails from working with federal immigration officials. People’s Daily Online reports that the move would potentially hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations.  However, the county is now locked in a standoff…

Photo credit: CBC A report that found Toronto discriminated against refugee claimants by refusing them access to homeless shelters was denied a full hearing at council Wednesday after an ally of Mayor Olivia Chow used a procedural maneuver to prevent it from going to debate. Toronto Star reports that the investigation released last Thursday by…

Photo credit: the Blueprint A former wife of the Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola had planned a children’s fair alongside an empowerment scheme for 5,000 children each of whom would have been given 5,000 naira (USD3.21). Tell reports that however, the event, which was scheduled for Wednesday, December 18 turned out to be a scene of tragedy …