Government Scrambles to Deal With Flood of Gypsy Illegals from Romania

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 09 December 2012 00:57

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp222.net/z8dCNE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Government Scrambles to Deal With Flood of Gypsy Illegals from Romania How can you fight a problem if you can't even name it? Below are two stories about the same situation. Smugglers are charging between $10,000 and $30,000 to smuggle in Gypsies from Romania (a democratic country) to make "refugee" claims.. The government, for the first time, is invoking special rules to designate these people who actively benefit and engage in the criminal enterprise of people smuggling as "irregular arrivals.| Wow! Now that's tough! Typical bureacratese, the term disguises the fact that these illegals pay for and participate in a criminal enterprise. "Refugees deemed irregular arrivals face a five-year ban on applying for permanent residence, sponsoring family members and receiving refugee travel documents." One is breathless. This is a minor slap on the wrist. They should be deported. The National Post (December 5, 2012) reports: "Calling human smuggling an “attack on Canada’s sovereignty,” the government took steps Wednesday to shut down an alleged Romanian crime ring that has been shuttling migrants across a Quebec border crossing. At a news conference in Stanstead, Que., where 85 Romanians have crashed the border in vehicles over the past 10 months, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the government had designated the migrants as “irregular arrivals.” It was the first time Ottawa had used its new powers of designation, part of controversial immigration legislation passed in June. Refugees deemed irregular arrivals face a five-year ban on applying for permanent residence, sponsoring family members and receiving refugee travel documents. ... “We’ll use the full force of Canada’s immigration act to break the business model of syndicates that profit from smuggling operations like those happening across this border.” The 85 migrants crossed from the United States on Feb. 2, April 26, Oct.11, Oct. 19 and Oct. 23. Thirty have been arrested so far and another 10 have received letters advising them they are subject to the special measures. Thirty-five out of the 85 are children. Authorities have so far been unable to find the remaining 45. The existence of the Romanian smuggling ring was first reported by the National Post in late October ( http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/25/alleged-human-smuggling-ring-brought-romanians-to-canada-via-mexico-police-say/ ). The crime ring charged $10,000 to $30,000 each for passage to Canada. Migrants were flown to Cancun, Mexico. They then crossed the border to Texas and travelled to Quebec in vans. The Romanian smuggling operation has been linked to a “distraction” crime ring in the Durham, Ont., region that targeted convenience stores, jewelers and seniors. As one suspect diverted the victims, the others would steal goods, stuffing them into pockets sewn into their clothing. In September, police arrested 34 suspects and estimated they had collected over $2-million in social assistance benefits since January. Investigators identified more than $1-million in suspicious wire transfer overseas. More than 260 charges were laid. The suspected smuggling scheme is being blamed for a recent rise in Romanian refugee claims, which have climbed from just 57 in 2007 to 258 last year, according to the Immigration & Refugee Board. So far, 209 claims have been filed in 2012, up to the end of September." Immigration Minister Jason Kenney stamps his foot and threatens: "“We’ll use the full force of Canada’s immigration act to break the business model of syndicates that profit from smuggling operations like those happening across this border.” Tough talk. To break the business model of the smugglers, why not simply deport anyone who sneaks in this way. They are participating in and benefiting from organized crime. Great start as a "refugee." Only those hopped up on legalisms can fail to see the reality -- we're being scammed! If people entering this way were jailed and deported, it would "break the business model" as there would be no benefit. Notice how both the conservative National Post and the more liberal Canadian Press in their accounts fail to identify the illegals. They are not mainstream Romanians. They are Gypsies, similar to scamsters who have poured in from equally democratic Hungary making the same "refugee" claim, which they will often abandon after many months (as it is clearly bogus) but meanwhile having gotten themselves medicated, gotten their teeth fixed and having soaked up welfare, all courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer. Too bad the National Post didn't check back to its own Chris Selley's column of October 27, 2012, which said,in part: "Friday’s National Post featured Stewart Bell’s disturbing front-page story ( http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/25/alleged-human-smuggling-ring-brought-romanians-to-canada-via-mexico-police-say/ ) about an alleged 'human smuggling' ring bringing hundreds of Romanian Roma refugee claimants to the Toronto area, via Mexico and the United States. Sources told Mr. Bell that at least some of them have been linked to criminal activities in the region — activities apparently undertaken to pay back the people who brought them here, to the tune of $10,000 to $30,000 each. This comes after last month’s arrest of 34 Romanian Roma in Durham Region, east of Toronto, pertaining to what police described ( http://www.drps.ca/internet_explorer/whatsnew/whatsnew_view.asp?ID=23389 ) as an 'organized crime ring' involving 'distraction-style thefts/frauds'; an alarming Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) report ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/17/pol-cbsa-project-sara-immigrants-hungary-roma.html?cmp=rss ), obtained by CBC, showing that Hungarian refugee claimants — most if not all of whom, we know, are Roma — are indeed committing such crimes, with which Roma are widely and freely associated in Eastern Europe." Roma, of course, is the politically correct term for Gypsies. Also, remarkable is the ease with which the smuggling ring seems to get across the U.S.-Mexican border. Where's all that Homeland Security surveillance that legitimate Canadian visitors face every time they cross the border to shop or for vacation? Paul Fromm Director CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE HUNT IS ON FOR ROMANIANS BELIEVED TO BE PART OF HUMAN NEW POWERS USED FOR FIRST TIME ON BORDER-CRASHING ROMANIAN HUMAN SMUGGLING RING ( HTTP://NEWS.NATIONALPOST.COM/AUTHOR/SBELLNP/ ) STEWART BELL ( HTTP://NEWS.NATIONALPOST.COM/AUTHOR/SBELLNP/ )DEC 5, 2012 10:58 AM ET | LAST UPDATED: DEC 6, 2012 12:31 AM ET MORE FROM STEWART BELL ( HTTP://NEWS.NATIONALPOST.COM/AUTHOR/SBELLNP/ ) AFP/GETTY IMAGESTHE STANSTEAD BORDER CROSSING DIVIDING QUEBEC AND VERMONT. * CALLING HUMAN SMUGGLING AN “ATTACK ON CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY,” THE GOVERNMENT TOOK STEPS WEDNESDAY TO SHUT DOWN AN ALLEGED ROMANIAN CRIME RING THAT HAS BEEN SHUTTLING MIGRANTS ACROSS A QUEBEC BORDER CROSSING. AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN STANSTEAD, QUE., WHERE 85 ROMANIANS HAVE CRASHED THE BORDER IN VEHICLES OVER THE PAST 10 MONTHS, IMMIGRATION MINISTER JASON KENNEY SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD DESIGNATED THE MIGRANTS AS “IRREGULAR ARRIVALS.” IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OTTAWA HAD USED ITS NEW POWERS OF DESIGNATION, PART OF CONTROVERSIAL IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION PASSED IN JUNE. REFUGEES DEEMED IRREGULAR ARRIVALS FACE A FIVE-YEAR BAN ON APPLYING FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE, SPONSORING FAMILY MEMBERS AND RECEIVING REFUGEE TRAVEL DOCUMENTS. “WE MUST MAINTAIN THE SECURITY OF OUR BORDERS,” MR. KENNEY SAID. “WE’LL USE THE FULL FORCE OF CANADA’S IMMIGRATION ACT TO BREAK THE BUSINESS MODEL OF SYNDICATES THAT PROFIT FROM SMUGGLING OPERATIONS LIKE THOSE HAPPENING ACROSS THIS BORDER.” THE 85 MIGRANTS CROSSED FROM THE UNITED STATES ON FEB. 2, APRIL 26, OCT.11, OCT. 19 AND OCT. 23. THIRTY HAVE BEEN ARRESTED SO FAR AND ANOTHER 10 HAVE RECEIVED LETTERS ADVISING THEM THEY ARE SUBJECT TO THE SPECIAL MEASURES. THIRTY-FIVE OUT OF THE 85 ARE CHILDREN. AUTHORITIES HAVE SO FAR BEEN UNABLE TO FIND THE REMAINING 45. THE EXISTENCE OF THE ROMANIAN SMUGGLING RING WAS FIRST REPORTED BY THE NATIONAL POST IN LATE OCTOBER ( HTTP://NEWS.NATIONALPOST.COM/2012/10/25/ALLEGED-HUMAN-SMUGGLING-RING-BROUGHT-ROMANIANS-TO-CANADA-VIA-MEXICO-POLICE-SAY/ ). THE CRIME RING CHARGED $10,000 TO $30,000 EACH FOR PASSAGE TO CANADA. MIGRANTS WERE FLOWN TO CANCUN, MEXICO. THEY THEN CROSSED THE BORDER TO TEXAS AND TRAVELLED TO QUEBEC IN VANS. ( HTTP://NATIONALPOSTNEWS.FILES.WORDPRESS.COM/2012/10/CRIME-RING.JPG ) DURHAM REGIONAL POLICETHE ALLEGED CRIME GROUP TARGETED CONVENIENCE STORES, JEWELERS AND SENIORS. AS ONE SUSPECT DISTRACTED THE VICTIMS, THE OTHERS WOULD STEAL GOODS, STUFFING THEM INTO POCKETS SEWN INTO THEIR CLOTHING. ABOVE, A FRAME GRAB FROM SURVEILLANCE VIDEO WHICH CAN BE SEEN BELOW. WHILE MOST WENT TO TORONTO TO MAKE REFUGEE CLAIMS, OTHERS HAVE GONE TO CITIES SUCH AS MONTREAL, THUNDER BAY, ONT., AND WINNIPEG. THEY ARE SAID TO BE INDEBTED TO THE SMUGGLERS AND MADE TO REPAY WHAT THEY OWE BY APPLYING FOR WELFARE BENEFITS AND ENGAGING IN LOW-LEVEL ORGANIZED CRIME. THE CRACKDOWN ON THE ROMANIAN HUMAN SMUGGLING NETWORK COMES AS CANADIAN OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO DEAL WITH A SURGE IN REFUGEE CLAIMS FROM EASTERN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY HUNGARY, WHICH HAS BEEN CANADA’S TOP SOURCE OF ASYLUM SEEKERS FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS. “WE FIND IT PECULIAR WE WOULD BE GETTING MORE ASYLUM CLAIMS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION THAN AFRICA OR LATIN AMERICA OR ASIA,” MR. KENNEY SAID. OFFICIALS SUSPECT SOME EAST EUROPEANS ARE APPLYING FOR REFUGEE STATUS SO THEY CAN EARN MONEY TEMPORARILY IN CANADA. THEN, THEY RETURN TO EUROPE, LEAVING CANADIAN TAXPAYERS WITH THE ROUGHLY $50,000 COST OF PROCESSING EACH ASYLUM CLAIM. THE ROMANIAN SMUGGLING OPERATION HAS BEEN LINKED TO A “DISTRACTION” CRIME RING IN THE DURHAM, ONT., REGION THAT TARGETED CONVENIENCE STORES, JEWELERS AND SENIORS. AS ONE SUSPECT DIVERTED THE VICTIMS, THE OTHERS WOULD STEAL GOODS, STUFFING THEM INTO POCKETS SEWN INTO THEIR CLOTHING. IN SEPTEMBER, POLICE ARRESTED 34 SUSPECTS AND ESTIMATED THEY HAD COLLECTED OVER $2-MILLION IN SOCIAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS SINCE JANUARY. INVESTIGATORS IDENTIFIED MORE THAN $1-MILLION IN SUSPICIOUS WIRE TRANSFER OVERSEAS. MORE THAN 260 CHARGES WERE LAID. THE SUSPECTED SMUGGLING SCHEME IS BEING BLAMED FOR A RECENT RISE IN ROMANIAN REFUGEE CLAIMS, WHICH HAVE CLIMBED FROM JUST 57 IN 2007 TO 258 LAST YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE BOARD. SO FAR, 209 CLAIMS HAVE BEEN FILED IN 2012, UP TO THE END OF SEPTEMBER. ( HTTP://PINTEREST.COM/PIN/CREATE/BUTTON/?URL=HTTP%3A%2F%2FWWW.LEADERPOST.COM%2FNEWS%2FDOZENS%2BROMANIAN%2BNATIONALS%2BSUSPECTED%2BPART%2BHUMAN%2BSMUGGLING%2BRING%2F7654961%2FSTORY.HTML&MEDIA=HTTP%3A%2F%2FWWW.LEADERPOST.COM%2FIMAGES%2FICON512X512_LP.JPG&DESCRIPTION=HUNT%20IS%20ON%20FOR%20ROMANIANS%20BELIEVED%20TO%20BE%20PART%20OF%20HUMAN%20SMUGGLING%20RING ) HUNT IS ON FOR ROMANIANS BELIEVED TO BE PART OF HUMAN SMUGGLING RING By Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian PressDecember 5, 2012 1:30 PM OTTAWA - The hunt is on for 45 Romanian nationals smuggled into Canada. Government officials said Wednesday the missing are among 85 people who entered the country illegally at intervals stretching back to February. Authorities have rounded up 40 of them so far and 30 of these were detained under new immigration law provisions that saw the entire group designated as part of an "irregular arrival," which essentially means as part of a human smuggling operation. "We open our arms to true immigrants and true refugees who follow the rules and who wait for their turn in line," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said at a news conference in Stanstead, Que., a town that borders the United States and is believed to have been the entry point for the group. "We will not tolerate those who are abusing our generosity or who are tricking their way in." Kenney said those involved in smuggling the individuals are part of the investigation. The first of five waves of Romanian nationals began arriving in Canada in February, officials said Wednesday. They were part of what was described as a sophisticated smuggling ring that saw people travel to Mexico, cross illegally into the United States, drive north to Canada and sneak in over unmarked border crossings in Quebec. Another group arrived in April and three more followed in October — three months after the government enacted new immigration laws they said would deter those seeking illegal entry into Canada. The new laws allow the minister of Public Safety to designate a group of immigrants as an "irregular arrival" which subjects them to immediate detention, a five-year wait to apply for permanent residency and restrictions on sponsoring their families to come to Canada. "The facts I have reviewed have provided me with reasonable grounds to suspect that these arrivals have occurred as part of a human smuggling operation ... for profit or in association with a criminal organization," Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in a statement. The new laws provide for a detention review after 14 days and again at six months. Those under the age of 16 are not subject to mandatory detention; officials said 35 people in the group meet that criteria. The mandatory detention provisions of the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act provoked much debate when they were first introduced. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and others decried them as being unethical and unconstitutional. Initially, there was no detention review provided for up to a year, unless the individual was proven to be a genuine refugee. There are also concerns that the bill unfairly penalized people who are victims of human smuggling operations and who had no choice in whether they came to Canada. The final version gave the Public Safety minister the power to exempt individuals considered to be vulnerable from mandatory detention and other provisions of the law. Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Dozens+Romanian+nationals+suspected+part+human+smuggling ( http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Dozens+Romanian+nationals+suspected+part+human+smuggling+ring/7654961/story.html#ixzz2EDVTHJjF ) _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp222.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqghhqgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Government Scrambles to Deal With Flood of Gypsy Illegals from Romania

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 09 December 2012 00:31

* Government Scrambles to Deal With Flood of Gypsy Illegals from Romania* How can you fight a problem if you can't even name it? Below are two stories about the same situation. Smugglers are charging between $10,000 and $30,000 to smuggle in Gypsies from Romania (a democratic country) to make "refugee" claims.. The government, for the first time, is invoking special rules to designate these people who actively benefit and engage in the criminal enterprise of people smuggling as "irregular arrivals.| Wow! Now that's tough! Typical bureacratese, the term disguises the fact that these illegals pay for and participate in a criminal enterprise. "Refugees deemed irregular arrivals face a five-year ban on applying for permanent residence, sponsoring family members and receiving refugee travel documents." One is breathless. This is a minor slap on the wrist. They should be deported. The *National Post* (December 5, 2012) reports: "Calling human smuggling an “attack on Canada’s sovereignty,” the government took steps Wednesday to shut down an alleged Romanian crime ring that has been shuttling migrants across a Quebec border crossing. At a news conference in Stanstead, Que., where 85 Romanians have crashed the border in vehicles over the past 10 months, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the government had designated the migrants as “irregular arrivals.” It was the first time Ottawa had used its new powers of designation, part of controversial immigration legislation passed in June. Refugees deemed irregular arrivals face a five-year ban on applying for permanent residence, sponsoring family members and receiving refugee travel documents. ... “We’ll use the full force of Canada’s immigration act to break the business model of syndicates that profit from smuggling operations like those happening across this border.” The 85 migrants crossed from the United States on Feb. 2, April 26, Oct.11, Oct. 19 and Oct. 23. Thirty have been arrested so far and another 10 have received letters advising them they are subject to the special measures. Thirty-five out of the 85 are children. Authorities have so far been unable to find the remaining 45. The existence of the Romanian smuggling ring was first reported by the *National Post* in late October<http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/25/alleged-human-smuggling-ring-brought-romanians-to-canada-via-mexico-police-say/>. The crime ring charged $10,000 to $30,000 each for passage to Canada. Migrants were flown to Cancun, Mexico. They then crossed the border to Texas and travelled to Quebec in vans. The Romanian smuggling operation has been linked to a “distraction” crime ring in the Durham, Ont., region that targeted convenience stores, jewelers and seniors. As one suspect diverted the victims, the others would steal goods, stuffing them into pockets sewn into their clothing. In September, police arrested 34 suspects and estimated they had collected over $2-million in social assistance benefits since January. Investigators identified more than $1-million in suspicious wire transfer overseas. More than 260 charges were laid. The suspected smuggling scheme is being blamed for a recent rise in Romanian refugee claims, which have climbed from just 57 in 2007 to 258 last year, according to the Immigration & Refugee Board. So far, 209 claims have been filed in 2012, up to the end of September." Immigration Minister Jason Kenney stamps his foot and threatens: "“We’ll use the full force of Canada’s immigration act to break the business model of syndicates that profit from smuggling operations like those happening across this border.” Tough talk. To break the business model of the smugglers, why not simply deport anyone who sneaks in this way. They are participating in and benefiting from organized crime. Great start as a "refugee." Only those hopped up on legalisms can fail to see the reality -- we're being scammed! If people entering this way were jailed and deported, it would "break the business model" as there would be no benefit. Notice how both the conservative *National Post* and the more liberal Canadian Press in their accounts fail to identify the illegals. They are not mainstream Romanians. They are Gypsies, similar to scamsters who have poured in from equally democratic Hungary making the same "refugee" claim, which they will often abandon after many months (as it is clearly bogus) but meanwhile having gotten themselves medicated, gotten their teeth fixed and having soaked up welfare, all courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer. Too bad the *National Post* didn't check back to its own Chris Selley'scolumn of October 27, 2012, which said,in part: "Friday’s *National Post *featured Stewart Bell’s disturbing front-page story<http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/25/alleged-human-smuggling-ring-brought-romanians-to-canada-via-mexico-police-say/>about an alleged 'human smuggling' ring bringing hundreds of Romanian Roma refugee claimants to the Toronto area, via Mexico and the United States. Sources told Mr. Bell that at least some of them have been linked to criminal activities in the region — activities apparently undertaken to pay back the people who brought them here, to the tune of $10,000 to $30,000 each. This comes after last month’s arrest of 34 Romanian Roma in Durham Region, east of Toronto, pertaining to what police described<http://www.drps.ca/internet_explorer/whatsnew/whatsnew_view.asp?ID=23389>as an 'organized crime ring' involving 'distraction-style thefts/frauds'; an alarming Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) report<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/17/pol-cbsa-project-sara-immigrants-hungary-roma.html?cmp=rss>, obtained by CBC, showing that Hungarian refugee claimants — most if not all of whom, we know, are Roma — are indeed committing such crimes, with which Roma are widely and freely associated in Eastern Europe." *Roma*, of course, is the politically correct term for Gypsies. Also, remarkable is the ease with which the smuggling ring seems to get across the U.S.-Mexican border. Where's all that Homeland Security surveillance that legitimate Canadian visitors face every time they cross the border to shop or for vacation? *Paul Fromm* *Director* *CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE* Hunt is on for Romanians believed to be part of human New powers used for first time on border-crashing Romanian human smuggling ring <http://news.nationalpost.com/author/sbellnp/> Stewart Bell <http://news.nationalpost.com/author/sbellnp/> | Dec 5, 2012 10:58 AM ET | Last Updated: Dec 6, 2012 12:31 AM ET More from Stewart Bell <http://news.nationalpost.com/author/sbellnp/> [image: AFP/Getty Images] AFP/Getty ImagesThe Stanstead border crossing dividing Quebec and Vermont. - Calling human smuggling an “attack on Canada’s sovereignty,” the government took steps Wednesday to shut down an alleged Romanian crime ring that has been shuttling migrants across a Quebec border crossing. At a news conference in Stanstead, Que., where 85 Romanians have crashed the border in vehicles over the past 10 months, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the government had designated the migrants as “irregular arrivals.” It was the first time Ottawa had used its new powers of designation, part of controversial immigration legislation passed in June. Refugees deemed irregular arrivals face a five-year ban on applying for permanent residence, sponsoring family members and receiving refugee travel documents. “We must maintain the security of our borders,” Mr. Kenney said. “We’ll use the full force of Canada’s immigration act to break the business model of syndicates that profit from smuggling operations like those happening across this border.” The 85 migrants crossed from the United States on Feb. 2, April 26, Oct.11, Oct. 19 and Oct. 23. Thirty have been arrested so far and another 10 have received letters advising them they are subject to the special measures. Thirty-five out of the 85 are children. Authorities have so far been unable to find the remaining 45. The existence of the Romanian smuggling ring was first reported by the *National Post* in late October<http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/25/alleged-human-smuggling-ring-brought-romanians-to-canada-via-mexico-police-say/>. The crime ring charged $10,000 to $30,000 each for passage to Canada. Migrants were flown to Cancun, Mexico. They then crossed the border to Texas and travelled to Quebec in vans. [image: Durham Regional Police]<http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/crime-ring.jpg> Durham Regional PoliceThe alleged crime group targeted convenience stores, jewelers and seniors. As one suspect distracted the victims, the others would steal goods, stuffing them into pockets sewn into their clothing. Above, a frame grab from surveillance video which can be seen below. While most went to Toronto to make refugee claims, others have gone to cities such as Montreal, Thunder Bay, Ont., and Winnipeg. They are said to be indebted to the smugglers and made to repay what they owe by applying for welfare benefits and engaging in low-level organized crime. The crackdown on the Romanian human smuggling network comes as Canadian officials are trying to deal with a surge in refugee claims from Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, which has been Canada’s top source of asylum seekers for the past three years. “We find it peculiar we would be getting more asylum claims from the European Union than Africa or Latin America or Asia,” Mr. Kenney said. Officials suspect some East Europeans are applying for refugee status so they can earn money temporarily in Canada. Then, they return to Europe, leaving Canadian taxpayers with the roughly $50,000 cost of processing each asylum claim. The Romanian smuggling operation has been linked to a “distraction” crime ring in the Durham, Ont., region that targeted convenience stores, jewelers and seniors. As one suspect diverted the victims, the others would steal goods, stuffing them into pockets sewn into their clothing. In September, police arrested 34 suspects and estimated they had collected over $2-million in social assistance benefits since January. Investigators identified more than $1-million in suspicious wire transfer overseas. More than 260 charges were laid. The suspected smuggling scheme is being blamed for a recent rise in Romanian refugee claims, which have climbed from just 57 in 2007 to 258 last year, according to the Immigration & Refugee Board. So far, 209 claims have been filed in 2012, up to the end of September. Hunt is on for Romanians believed to be part of human smuggling ring By Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press December 5, 2012 1:30 PM <http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leaderpost.com%2Fnews%2FDozens%2BRomanian%2Bnationals%2Bsuspected%2Bpart%2Bhuman%2Bsmuggling%2Bring%2F7654961%2Fstory.html&media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leaderpost.com%2Fimages%2Ficon512x512_LP.jpg&description=Hunt%20is%20on%20for%20Romanians%20believed%20to%20be%20part%20of%20human%20smuggling%20ring> OTTAWA - The hunt is on for 45 Romanian nationals smuggled into Canada. Government officials said Wednesday the missing are among 85 people who entered the country illegally at intervals stretching back to February. Authorities have rounded up 40 of them so far and 30 of these were detained under new immigration law provisions that saw the entire group designated as part of an "irregular arrival," which essentially means as part of a human smuggling operation. "We open our arms to true immigrants and true refugees who follow the rules and who wait for their turn in line," Immigration Minister Jason Kenneysaid at a news conference in Stanstead, Que., a town that borders the United States and is believed to have been the entry point for the group. "We will not tolerate those who are abusing our generosity or who are tricking their way in." Kenney said those involved in smuggling the individuals are part of the investigation. The first of five waves of Romanian nationals began arriving in Canada in February, officials said Wednesday. They were part of what was described as a sophisticated smuggling ring that saw people travel to Mexico, cross illegally into the United States, drive north to Canada and sneak in over unmarked border crossings in Quebec. Another group arrived in April and three more followed in October — three months after the government enacted new immigration laws they said would deter those seeking illegal entry into Canada. The new laws allow the minister of Public Safety to designate a group of immigrants as an "irregular arrival" which subjects them to immediate detention, a five-year wait to apply for permanent residency and restrictions on sponsoring their families to come to Canada. "The facts I have reviewed have provided me with reasonable grounds to suspect that these arrivals have occurred as part of a human smuggling operation ... for profit or in association with a criminal organization," Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in a statement. The new laws provide for a detention review after 14 days and again at six months. Those under the age of 16 are not subject to mandatory detention; officials said 35 people in the group meet that criteria. The mandatory detention provisions of the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act provoked much debate when they were first introduced. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and others decried them as being unethical and unconstitutional. Initially, there was no detention review provided for up to a year, unless the individual was proven to be a genuine refugee. There are also concerns that the bill unfairly penalized people who are victims of human smuggling operations and who had no choice in whether they came to Canada. The final version gave the Public Safety minister the power to exempt individuals considered to be vulnerable from mandatory detention and other provisions of the law. Read more: http://www.leaderpost .com/news/Dozens+Romanian+nationals+suspected+part+human+smuggling+ring/7654961/story.html# ixzz2EDVTHJjF

 

HATE LAWS WORLDWIDE: WINS AND LOSSES FOR FREEDOM

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 04 December 2012 05:13

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp289.net/zF8XRx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HATE LAWS WORLDWIDE: WINS AND LOSSES FOR FREEDOM By Rev. Ted Pike, National Prayer Network December 3, 2012 http://truthtellers.org/alerts/HateLawsWorldwideUpdate.html From my first warnings about Christian-persecuting hate crimes laws in 1989, I have always told of their creator: the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. Christian conservative leaders claimed this simple fact-stating was “anti-Semitic.” They preferred to blame homosexual activists. This year ADL took credit more clearly than ever. ( http://www.adl.org/annual_report/Annual_Report_2011.pdf ) "Our legal experts pioneered hate crime lawsand work to implement them nationwide." Hate crimes laws are unique in the history of jurisprudence because they guarantee extra punishment for bias-motivated crimes against certain minorities in a population (homosexuals, Jews, Muslims, blacks, Latinos, etc.). Such protection is not extended to whites, Christians or males. The texts of all hate crime laws worldwide promise equal protection to everyone but do not grant it. Thus, hate laws are blatantly unconstitutional in the democracies which enforce them. How successful has ADL been in persuading the nations to adopt hate laws? Stupendously. Since Canada’s federal hate law (Sec. 319) was passed in 1971 and Britain’s Sec. 5 of the Public Order Act in 1986, more than 60 western and eastern European nations have adopted federal hate crimes legislation, all closely modeled after the pattern supplied by ADL. This brief article summarizes the present status of hate laws in Canada, Britain and the United States. There are some glimmers of hope against the stony backdrop of hate laws’ enshrinement in most western nations. Canada In 2009 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal astonishingly declared Sec. 13 of Canada’s hate law (forbidding “hate speech” on the internet) to be unconstitutional. It was repealed by Parliament’s House of Commons in June of this year. Although Senate approval is still pending, the next great push by Canadian civil liberties groups (such as Paul Fromm’s heroic “Canadian Association for Free Expression”) is repeal of the original hate law, Sec. 319. Meanwhile, the most horrendous legal flagellation of offenders continues, such as mathematics professor Terry Tremaine, letter writer Brad Love, and others. Lovers of freedom everywhere rejoiced with recent acquittal from all hate crimes charges of Canadian pastor Stephen Boissoin. In 2002 Boissoin wrote a letter to the editor criticizing the “homosexual machine” and “militant homosexual agenda.” A homosexual activist claimed his feelings were hurt and blamed Boissoin’s letter for inciting an attack on a homosexual teacher in Red Deer, Alberta. The Alberta Hate Crime Tribunal found Boissoin guilty of inciting hate and fined him $7000, to be paid to the complaining homosexual. In addition to other punishments, he was gagged from publicly commenting on homosexuality for three years. His 10-year ordeal ended when two Alberta higher courts exonerated him completely. Britain In Britain “harassment” (causing someone “alarm or distress” or feeling insulted) is a statutory offense. Britain’s hate law, Sec. 5 of its Public Order Act, says, A person is guilty of an offense if he (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior, or disorderly behavior, or (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive, or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm, or distress thereby. Popular British actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) leads popular efforts to repeal Sec. 5a. Increasing numbers of writers, comedians, political commentators, social critics and performers cannot pursue their occupations freely without fear of arrest for “insulting” someone. Evangelical Christians are especially under fire. Sec. 5 charges are increasingly being leveled by police against conservative Christians who object to either the homosexual lifestyle or the government’s plans to institute “gay marriage.” Adrian Smith is a Christian who recently tweeted ( http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-court-vindicates-christian-demoted-for-opposing-gay-marriage ), “If the State wants to offer civil marriages to the same sex then that is up to the State; but the State shouldn’t impose its rules on places of faith and conscience.” Although his position is held by about 80 percent of the British population, Mr. Smith was arrested and charged under Sec. 5. His employer docked his pay 40 percent! Lifesitenews.com says ( http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mr.-bean-star-calls-for-repeal-of-british-hate-speech-law ), "The campaign to reform Section 5 is drawing a surprisingly broad array of supporters. . . The campaign also claims 60 supporters in the Commons and the House of Lords including UKIP leader Nigel Farage.” After 26 years of folly and persecution of free speech, a movement in Britain very similar to that of Canada could deal a painful blow to ADL/B’nai B’rith and a resounding victory for freedom. United States The good news in the U.S. is that, with Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, ADL is unable to push forward new hate laws. Their HR 975 anti-bullying bill, which would make criticism of homosexual youth in U.S. education a federal offense, has languished in committee since conservatives regained power. The bad news is that the federal hate crimes law, passed just before Republicans came to power, is now being vigorously enforced. Sixteen cases have been tried and fifteen won by the U.S. Justice Department. A recent Kentucky case misfired for the government when three out of four alleged anti-gay hate criminals were found to be bisexual themselves. By far the most shocking threat to freedom was this summer’s conviction of 16 Amish zealots, found guilty of the federal hate crime of forcibly cutting the hair and beards of theological rivals. Hate laws have never been enforced by governments when bias-motivated acts are between members of the same minority group. After this unprecedented judgment, Christian defendants await sentencing from 17 years to life in prison for going a step further than shunning and forcibly cutting the revered beards of their Christian antagonists. This case is especially ominous because it represents government prosecution of a fairly large group of Christians, almost the number of a small church. Anti-Christian Jewish ADL relishes the possibility of wide-scale arrests of Christians, even denominations of Christians who are judged by the government to be “haters,” “anti-Semitic,” “domestic terrorists,”“seditionists” in the war on terror. The day before conviction ADL’s Abe Foxman rejoiced in testimony before a Senate committee that enforcement of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act was going forward splendidly. ADL and the Jewish Southern Poverty Law Center yearn for someone from the right wing in America to commit a bona fide hate crime against a person or persons of a federally protected group. In his testimony, Foxman named Wade Page, Sikh temple shooter and member of a white power rock band, as proof the government should consider the anti-Zionist and anti-Islamic right as primary sources of potential hate-motivated violence. Yet ADL and SPLC remain deeply frustrated that their “perfect shooter,” an unstable person with extensive contacts and association with established right-wing groups and media, has not yet materialized. Meanwhile, no matter how blatant, bona fide hate crimes by members of protected groups are not prosecuted as such. The Fort Hood shooter (army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who killed 13 and wounded 29 from clear anti-American bias) was, as a Muslim, exempted from federal hate crimes prosecution. So was possibly gay activist Floyd Corkins who attacked Family Research Council offices last summer, shooting a guard in the arm and yelling disagreement with FRC’s social policies. Many other glaring examples of preferential treatment toward members of federally protected groups who commit hate crimes can be found online. Federal and state hate laws prosecute carefully selected cases that will build legal precedent against whites, Christians, males, and members of the political right, cases authorities are almost certain to win. Each, like a brick, helps build prison walls of legal precedent against the Christian right. Christian Conservatives avoid Jewish Hate Law Issue Meanwhile, the religious right, largely weary of the hate law issue and its failed attempts to stem passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, is content that Republicans, for the moment, withstand new ADL hate bills. But, with enforcement of the federal hate law now moving forward rapidly, the time is past when the religious right can do nothing. It is vital that the numerous legal think-tanks and advocacy groups on the right begin concerted, wide-scale efforts to persuade Congress to declare the federal hate law unconstitutional. This should be extremely simple, logically speaking, since the hate law blatantly deprives most Americans of equal protection, one of America’s most fundamental values. It is ironic and pathetic that now, with Canada having suffered under a cruel and vindictive hate law for 42 years and Britain for 26 years, significant efforts are not being made to revoke the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The ADL/Justice Department cabal is setting up the same tyranny for America; but the Christian conservative right, from fear of the Jews who are in the middle of the hate law issue, are afraid to approach it aggressively. The only exception to such massive silence is an occasional article in Joseph Farah’s WorldNetDaily holding up ADL as an expert on hate crimes/anti-Semitism definitions and encouraging evangelicals to use ADL as a trusted authority! Amazingly, the religious right only becomes increasingly obsessed with what it believes is now the number one threat to freedom: radical Islam. In protecting ADL from criticism, the religious right believes it will avoid God’s curse on those who criticize His chosen people. Actually, by protecting ADL, the right has effectively made possible passage of 45 U.S. state hate laws, the federal hate law, and many so-called “anti-bullying” hate laws, not to mention proliferation of ADL’s hate laws worldwide, an enormous curse to America and the world. ------------------------- Listen to Rev. Ted Pike and Jeff Rense discuss this article and the threat to freedom posed by the federal hate crimes law: Host: Jeff Rense 2 Dec 12 Topic: Ted Pike Gives an Update on Hate Laws Worldwide Listen ( http://truthtellers.org/radiobroadcasts/Rense_Pike_HateLawsUpdate_30Nov12.ram ) Download ( http://truthtellers.org/radiobroadcasts/Rense_Pike_HateLawsUpdate_30Nov12.mp3 ) (39min, 9MB) Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization. TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Ted Pike on this topic. Call (503) 631-3808 ( tel:%28503%29%20631-3808 ). National Prayer Network, P.O. 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