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CORNWALL — Cornwall has been put on notice it should be prepared for a possible influx of refugees again this year.
Representatives of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada quietly met with Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy at city hall on Wednesday, and the Nav Centre’s executive-director Kim Coe-Turner confirmed that the facility has been asked to be prepared to accept more people this year. The Nav Centre is a major educational and recreation complex in Canada.
“There are discussions ongoing with the IRCC and nothing has been formalized fully as yet,” said Coe-Turner. “But the centre has low occupancy this summer, so we do have the capacity to assist.”
This is an about-face for the IRCC, which told the Standard-Freeholder in late April that “we do not plan on using the Nav Centre this year.”
The IRCC did not respond to requests for more information on the refugee advisory.
Coe-Turner does not know the specific reason for the government’s change of plans for Cornwall but noted there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the asylum-seeker issue currently.
“Given the circumstances happening in the world around us, they’re being proactive and planning in advance. No one is sure what is going to happen,”
The refugee situation has heated up with the U.S. government’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration.
The huge increase in arrests required the separation of thousands of children from their parents who were incarcerated while they awaited trial. The issue has caused a massive controversy in the U.S.
The Nav Centre and the City of Cornwall were given little notice last summer before it was used as emergency housing for hundreds of mostly-Haitian people fleeing the U.S. The asylum seekers fled after the Trump administration ended the temporary authorization that had allowed them to live in that country since the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.
Coe-Turner said that the extra warning will give everyone involved more time to prepare.
“It’s not like last year where there was a phone call and they started arriving within an hour. We are working with the government quite closely and we are hoping that we are successful in assisting,” she said.
ahale@postmedia.com
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Representatives of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada quietly met with Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy at city hall on Wednesday, and the Nav Centre’s executive-director Kim Coe-Turner confirmed that the facility has been asked to be prepared to accept more people this year. The Nav Centre is a major educational and recreation complex in Canada.
“There are discussions ongoing with the IRCC and nothing has been formalized fully as yet,” said Coe-Turner. “But the centre has low occupancy this summer, so we do have the capacity to assist.”
This is an about-face for the IRCC, which told the Standard-Freeholder in late April that “we do not plan on using the Nav Centre this year.”
The IRCC did not respond to requests for more information on the refugee advisory.
Coe-Turner does not know the specific reason for the government’s change of plans for Cornwall but noted there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the asylum-seeker issue currently.
“Given the circumstances happening in the world around us, they’re being proactive and planning in advance. No one is sure what is going to happen,”
The refugee situation has heated up with the U.S. government’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration.
The huge increase in arrests required the separation of thousands of children from their parents who were incarcerated while they awaited trial. The issue has caused a massive controversy in the U.S.
The Nav Centre and the City of Cornwall were given little notice last summer before it was used as emergency housing for hundreds of mostly-Haitian people fleeing the U.S. The asylum seekers fled after the Trump administration ended the temporary authorization that had allowed them to live in that country since the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.
Coe-Turner said that the extra warning will give everyone involved more time to prepare.
“It’s not like last year where there was a phone call and they started arriving within an hour. We are working with the government quite closely and we are hoping that we are successful in assisting,” she said.
ahale@postmedia.com
查看原文...
