移民政策の新しい潮流など

移民政策の新しい潮流、と断定できるか、とうかはまだわからないが、この不景気のせいもあってそんな感じを匂わす記事がいくつかある。

Immigrants should be able to speak English or French: Kenney


BY SARAH MCGINNIS, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE MARCH 20, 2009

The government is also shifting its focus away from promoting diversity to encouraging more integration of new Canadians.魚拓

カナダ、移民はフランス語ないし英語を話せるようにすべきだ、というもの。
当たり前だろう。しかし、その当たり前のことがいままでなされていなかったのである。そこで、ようやく多様性から、統合へ、という道を探り始めている。

日本でも日本語が話せないブラジル人移民の子供たちが多い、と聞く。これらのブラジル人を雇用していた企業、そして政府も、彼等に対する日本語教育が急務である、と心して取り組んで欲しい。
２０年日本にいて日本語が話せず、日本語に関する偽情報をばらまいているモンスター外国出身者たちがすでに日本社会をむしばみ始めていることに気づくべきだ。


Immigration levels may be cut by Tories

Government says it's wrong time to come to Canada

BY NORMA GREENAWAY, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEFEBRUARY 11, 2009


Canada is prepared to consider a cut in the number of newcomers allowed into the country if necessary over the short term to respond to a souring domestic job and economic scene, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says.

"We don't want people to be coming to Canada and facing unemployment," Kenney said Tuesday. "So, we need to be sensitive to a changing labour market, and if we need to make changes, we will.

同じカナダ。雇用が足りないので、移民の数が制限される、という。要するに、企業の受容に応じて移民を呼んでいたわけで、多様性の確保という二の次なわけである。


All you need to know about immigration in Britain today

WHAT ARE THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION?・・・・・consensus that migration offers large economic benefits to Britain has proved to be wrong on every point. A committee of the House of Lords, made up of economists and ex-finance ministers, published a definitive investigation into the issue almost exactly one year ago, on April 1 2008. The report, The Economic Impact of Migration, stated bluntly that "overall GDP, which the Government has persistently emphasised, is an irrelevant and misleading criterion for assessing the economic impacts of immigration on the UK. The total size of an economy is not an index of prosperity. The focus of analysis should be on the effects of immigration on income per head of the resident population. Both theory and the available empirical evidence indicate that these are small."
The additional income generated by immigrants is not much bigger – and may in fact be smaller – than the number of people they have added to the UK's population, so they do not increase prosperity to any significant degree.
The Lords' report went through the other claims made for the economic benefits for immigration and dismantled them one by one. "Immigration is unlikely to be an effective tool for reducing labour and skill shortages," the report stated, providing copious evidence for its claim. It stressed that immigrants, although they performed an important role within public services such as the NHS, were not in fact necessary to the functioning of those services: native British labour could have, and still could, perform the same role.
The report pointed out that immigration cannot defuse "the pensions time-bomb", since immigrants themselves grow old and need pensions. And it concluded that there was "no evidence for the argument made by the Government that immigration generates significant economic benefits for the existing UK population".
In fact, there is some evidence that immigration means that the least-educated portion of the workforce is less well-off, since immigration provides a competing supply of labour prepared to do the least pleasant and worst-paid jobs for even less money.

WHAT ARE THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION?
These are very hard to assess because they are hard to measure. But one result familiar from research into communities in the US that have experienced a sudden influx of large numbers of immigrants has been a diminution of trust. Immigrant communities tend not to mix, either with other immigrants or with residents of the host country. The result is a mosaic of tightly knit groups that do not integrate with each other and do not trust each other. The idea that the nation is a community based on reciprocal obligation suffers.
The texture of communities changes. Some people like those changes. Others do not. The changes are not confined to the appearance of ethnic restaurants or men and women who wear different clothes. An influx of people who are fundamentalist about their religion, for example, can mean that some of them do not accept ideas that mainstream Britain takes for granted: the primacy of secular over divine law; the equality of women with men; and the importance of the freedom to change your religion without persecution. How to ensure that immigrants adopt "British values" is a problem the Government has thought long and hard about – but has not solved.魚拓

イギリス。やはり、従来の移民政策の失敗を嘆いている。大量の移民の流入によって、経済的によくなる、と宣伝されたが、しかし、個々人の経済状況がよくなったとも、いえず、年金問題も移民自身が歳をとるのだから、問題の先送りでしかない。移民は国民がやりたがらない仕事をやっている、というが、国民がやらないわけでもない。また、社会的には、男女平等や改宗の自由などの伝来の価値が揺るがされてきている、という。


POPULATION: Unchecked growth: the suicide bomb
BY JIMMY A. DEFOOR
Special to the Star-Telegram
アメリカ、移民に人口増加に危惧を読み取る記事。

"False Reports of Hate Crimes Lead to Arrest

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: March 21, 2009
The police arrested a Staten Island construction worker on Saturday, saying that he had called 911 five times earlier in the week and falsely claimed he had killed or beaten “Mexicans.” The calls set off a large police response that included searches by divers.

According to the police, the man said later he made the calls because he was angry that three Hispanic day laborers had found work on Thursday morning when he did not.

アメリカ、ヒスパニックの日雇い労働者が自分の仕事を奪っているとして、「メキシコ人を殺った」と嘘の報告を警察にして、捕まる。移民に対する悪感情の表れであろう。



ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
12:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, March 25, 2009<

The Associated Press
HOUSTON – The U.S. Border Patrol is launching a controversial pilot project to poison plants along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande to eliminate dense foliage used by illegal immigrants and criminals to hide.

For: The Border Patrol and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say the chemical, Imazapyr, is safe for animals and humans. The program is designed to keep Border Patrol agents safe and help make their jobs easier.

Against: Critics say the action is similar to the Agent Orange chemical program during the Vietnam War and express concern that it could be harmful over the long term, especially near the cities of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

不法移民の侵入をふせぐため、不法移民が隠れやすい茂みに毒性の植物を植え付ける、という。賛否両論ある。


次の４つはカルデロンのりこちゃんと似たようなケース
Huntington Beach girl can stay in U.S. during custody dispute
Federal panel overturns a district court decision that would have sent her from her mother to live with her father in Mexico. None of the three is a U.S. citizen.
By Carol J. Williams
8:25 PM PDT, March 18, 2009魚拓



Immigration raids hurt families: Cardinal to Obama
March 25th, 2009
By Kristin Peterson, Catholic News Service

Notes From the Immigration Battlefield

By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Published: March 18, 2009

CHICAGO (CNS) -- Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, joined by nearly a thousand people at a Chicago Catholic church, urged President Barack Obama and his administration to stop immigration raids and deportations that are separating families and to work toward more comprehensive immigration reform.

Foster care agency faulted for calling immigration agents
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
CMARBIN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Immigrant advocates are calling on Florida child welfare administrators to repudiate the actions of a private Naples foster care agency they say snatched an infant and toddler from their mother and grandparents -- and then turned the family in to immigration agents.魚拓

　最後の例は非常に可哀想な例で、子供といっしょに養護施設に入っていた不法移民がチクられて親が子供から引き離されて勾留されてしまった、という記事。