Immigration Watch International (2): Canada Cuts Back on Alien Students by Doubling the Cash Needed for Visa

Monday, December 18, 2023

Canada Cuts Back on Alien Students by Doubling the Cash Needed for Visa

The announcement by Canada’s Immigration Minister, Mark Miller, (Liberal, Quebec) raised the cash needed for incoming alien students from the earlier CAD$10,000 (equal to about US$7,400) to CAD$20,635 (US$15,267).

This sum is in addition to the requirement that the new student pay some fees to the government, pay inward airfare, and pay for the first term’s tuition.

The new requirements are both stiffer than America’s and they are also more specific. The U.S. tells future F-1 students that they must have adequate funds for their education here, but does not set a number (though a website suggests a minimum of US$10,000).

As to the low standards of some private Canadian universities — “puppy mills” in the lingo north of the border — we run into the same situation as in America: Admission of alien students is handled by the national government, but the regulation of universities is primarily a provincial decision. Minister Miller threatened to limit foreign student admissions in certain provinces if those provinces did not crack down on the puppy mills.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has never made such a threat; its regulatory agency, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP, part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement), plays a totally passive role in this regard, trusting either states or recognized credentialing organizations to make such decisions.

On the other hand, despite grumbling about the prospect of undergraduates working 40-hour jobs, the minister allowed this to happen until April 30, 2024, on a temporary basis. The U.S. lets undergraduates work only 20 hours a week, in their first year, but allows foreign grad students to work full-time.

Meanwhile, earlier this month the United Kingdom, in a different kind of restrictive move, ruled that incoming graduate students come the new year will no longer be allowed to bring relatives with them.

https://cis.org/North/Canada-Cuts-Back-Alien-Students-Doubling-Cash-Needed-Visa

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, December 18, 2023

Canada Cuts Back on Alien Students by Doubling the Cash Needed for Visa

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