Canada revises express entry immigration rules, adds military roles
02 Mar
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Canada revises express entry immigration rules, adds military roles

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Published February 19, 2026 5:27am TORONTO, Canada - Canada introduced new immigration priority categories on Wednesday to bring in skilled workers in fields ranging from research and health care to aviation, and to include certain military recruits. The new categories align with Prime Minister Mark Carney's goals of broadly reducing the number of new permanent residents in Canada while recruiting skilled workers and scholars and boosting defense capabilities to lessen dependence on the United States. The government said the shift was aimed at restoring immigration to sustainable levels while finding workers for key industries. Canada's government in recent years has sought to reduce the number of immigrants to ease strains on housing and social services. Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab said the 2026 changes to the...
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Immigration is many voters’ top issue, but these swing-state churches say it’s not politics
05 Nov
Politics

Immigration is many voters’ top issue, but these swing-state churches say it’s not politics

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Politics tamfitronics MADISON, Wis. (RNS) — When Toni Swandby and her husband Mark decided to host Ngwa Augustine, a recent immigrant to Wisconsin from Cameroon, the couple opened not just their home to him, but their congregation at Midvale Community Lutheran Church.“Not only did the Holy Spirit lead me very specifically to say ‘yes’ to this young man from Cameroon,” Swandby said, “but the Spirit has guided our congregation to see people differently than ‘other.’”Midvale pastor the Rev. Katie Baardseth said that after the congregation met Augustine, it fell in love with supporting immigration-related ministries.Since welcoming Augustine, the church has hosted a family from Ukraine and another from Colombia, both currently living next door to the church in a...
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On Immigration, Christian Voters Face Their Biggest Test Yet
17 Oct
Top Stories

On Immigration, Christian Voters Face Their Biggest Test Yet

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Top Stories Tamfitronics If the United States stands for religious freedom, then it should not be blocking refugees fleeing persecution from entering the country, a group of Christian organizations said this week.While more Christians are trying to escape violent persecution for their faith around the world, the groups said the Biden administration's effective asylum ban and former President Donald Trump's hint that he would end a refugee resettlement program both had consequences.Shortly before the report from World Relief and Open Doors U.S., over 200 faith leaders wrote an open letter to both presidential candidates, asking for them to apply biblical principles to their immigration policies."We can't profess to defend international religious freedom while simultaneously closing the doors to those facing persecution on account of their faith," Chelsea Sobolik, director of global relations at World...
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How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics
26 Sep
Politics

How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics

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Politics tamfitronics Feature / September 25, 2024Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats in their image.Photomontage by The Nation.On one of his few lucid moments during the only debate of the 2024 election cycle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the sitting president suggested he would be tougher on the border than his predecessor, blaming the former president for the demise of a “bipartisan border deal” that would have boosted the Border Patrol’s funding and significantly reduced access to asylum. Biden and top congressional Democrats had spent months negotiating its provisions, granting more and more concessions to conservatives in the hopes that they’d stop claiming that Biden had lost control of the southern border. But “when...
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