{"id":90353,"date":"2017-09-08T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/canada-should-wait-and-see-before-welcoming-dreamers-senator-says.html"},"modified":"2017-09-08T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:06:00","slug":"canada-should-wait-and-see-before-welcoming-dreamers-senator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/canada-should-wait-and-see-before-welcoming-dreamers-senator-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Canada should &#8216;wait and see&#8217; before welcoming DREAMers, senator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after suggesting Canada give special consideration to 10,000 to 30,000 undocumented immigrants from the United States, Senator Ratna Omidvar says the government should &#8220;wait and see what happens in the United States first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omidvar urged patience when speaking to CBC News on Friday, saying immigrants &#8220;would like nothing better than to stay in the United States\u00a0and I certainly hope that the United States can sort out its various issues to bring some closure to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Canada should welcome up to 30,000 DACA young people facing deportation in U.S., senator says<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Ratna Omidvar, Toronto expert on diversity, to sit as independent senator<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier in the week, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>in an interview on CBC News Network&#8217;s Power  Politics<\/strong><\/a>, Omidvar said Canada could benefit from the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to end a program that allowed young, undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These individuals are low-hanging fruit for us,&#8221; Omidvar told host Rosemary Barton. &#8220;They speak fluent English, they&#8217;ve been educated in the U.S., most of them have been to college or university, some of them have work experience. They understand the North American working culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>White House to rescind DACA program protecting young immigrants<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Donald Trump once welcomed these undocumented Dreamers, but now a deportation choice looms<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Friday, when visiting the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ont., Omidvar stressed youths wishing to immigrate to Canada from the United States should come through established immigration channels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think certainly within our current immigration numbers we could find place for DREAMers,&#8221; she said, referring to a proposed piece of American legislation that the undocumented immigrants are often named after \u2014 the DREAM Act. &#8220;I think we can show the world that in our small way, we can be accepting in a way that others can, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One problem Omidvar does foresee is too many DREAMers trying to immigrate to Canada at once, overwhelming the system.<\/p>\n<p>She said a solution is to move away from annual forecasting \u2014 where the government decides every year how many immigrants will be allowed into the country \u2014 to a three year model.<\/p>\n<p>While year-to-year planning &#8220;puts us in a bit of a straightjacket,&#8221; Omidvar said planning for three years would allow &#8220;greater flexibility, greater nimbleness, greater responsiveness to individual challenges that may arise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\/dreamers-senator-ratna-omidvar-canada-1.4281558?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after suggesting Canada give special consideration to 10,000 to 30,000 undocumented immigrants from the United States, Senator Ratna Omidvar says the government should &#8220;wait and see what happens in the United States first.&#8221; Omidvar urged patience when speaking to CBC News on Friday, saying immigrants &#8220;would like nothing better than to stay in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-90353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}