Nigeria<\/a> is one place where people obtained visas to visit the U.S. with the intention of heading to Canada.<\/p>\nThe minister said acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke was very receptive to the\u00a0suggestion and indicated\u00a0the U.S. is also looking at putting up signs at irregular crossings on its side of the border with messages to dissuade\u00a0those seeking\u00a0asylum in Canada.<\/p>\n
“They’re examining what they can do to communicate,” Goodale said.<\/p>\n
‘Joint steps’ on illegal migration<\/h2>\n
In a news release today about the meeting at the G7 summit of interior ministers in\u00a0Ischia, Italy, the department of homeland security reported\u00a0Duke and Goodale\u00a0talked about “joint steps to take to address illegal migration across their shared border.”<\/p>\n
Goodale said he asked Duke to consider alerting Canadian authorities when the U.S. is about to make policy decisions that would affect the border, in order to give agencies such as border services time to prepare.<\/p>\n
This summer, thousands of Haitians streamed into Quebec at an illegal border crossing after the United States announced it would not extend temporary protected status for Haitians\u00a0who have lived in that country since the devastating 2010 earthquake.<\/p>\n
Goodale said G7 ministers also spent a lot of time talking about fighting extremism of all kinds, and\u00a0how to prepare for the return of citizens who have been fighting in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n
“What happens to the foreign fighters, the people who have come from various Western countries to the fight in Syria and Iraq, and now if the battlefield activity is winding down, where do they go and what do they do”, he said.<\/p>\n
Security agencies around the world will have to identify and track those people, Goodale said, and\u00a0determine the risk they pose as well as\u00a0preserve evidence of any battlefield crimes before figuring out if\u00a0and how they could be prosecuted in the future.<\/p><\/p>\n
Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/border-migrants-terror-fighters-1.4366633?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canada’s Public Safety Minister has told his American counter part to\u00a0keep a “wary eye”\u00a0on the travel visas it issues to the United States. In an interview Sunday with CBC News, Goodale said Canadian officials have identified trends where documents issued from certain U.S. embassies and consulates are being misused. “We have asked them to go […]<\/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-97443","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\/97443","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=97443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}