Mexican emigration dropped 42 percent in 2 years Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America has become less appealing amid an economic downturn and stepped up raids against illegal migrants. About eight of every 1,000 Mexicans emigrated between February and...

Canadian Immigration- The Great Debate Chances are you immigrated to Canada. If not you, then your parents or grandparents did. Immigrants built this nation; partly because Canada has always welcomed those who want a better future, ...

Worried About the Mortgage Market? Don’t Blame an Immigrant Anti-immigrant zealots, as part of their never-ending crusade to blame immigration for virtually every economic and social problem in the United States, continue to insist that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market was rooted in nefarious home purchases by undocumented immigrants. On November...

Canada’s immigration backlogs - blatantly racist South Asian immigration applications are disproportionately affected by quotas/targets and immense backlogs. For example, the quota, or target as Ottawa calls it, for the New Delhi office is 9,245 visas a year. The backlog as of April 10 was 145,556. With no new applications, it would take a little under...

Asian immigrants - successful 2nd generation According to a study from the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy, the real test of a society’s inclusiveness is the academic and professional success of immigrants’ children.  The study shows a positive overall pattern for immigration in that most second-generation immigrants...

Meet Jason Kenney - Canada’s new Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism With Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent cabinet shuffle, Jason Kenney, the former Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity has been appointed as the new Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. Jason Kenney was first elected to the House of Commons in...

Some firms are slowly realizing they’ll need minorities to survive When Vikram Ahluwalia immigrated to Canada four years ago, he couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t getting any job offers. In India, he had spent the better part of a decade working his way up to middle management at a multinational packaged goods company, so he knew he was more than qualified to fill...