'IMMIGRATION POLICY OUT OF WACK'

My immigration law office is in the heart of a neighbourhood with 10,000
drug addicts and traffickers - most of whom are not Hondurans.

Street addicts and street drug traffickers are often indistinguishable, most
are both.

I see the addicts daily in plain view, shooting and selling drugs, oblivious
to the passers-by.

The police do nothing and it is a live-and let-live atmosphere.

Most are "normal" Canadians, many are native and a few are Hondurans.

If you wrote the same thing about "native" drug dealers, the racism would be
obvious, but because you demonize refugees you get away with it.

Canada trades and sends aid to Honduras, a country which oppresses and
persecutes their own people.

Canadians eat their cheap food while they starve.

And Canadians benefit from their wretched labour conditions, yet you fail to
see a connection between their repressive government and those Honduran
street people who traffic in cocaine.

I don't know any Honduran refugee claimants but I know that those who are
street level dealers should be fast-tracked out of here.

The current Immigration Act can deny people access to the refugee process if
there is a will to use it.

The police should use the laws we have and arrest anyone they see
trafficking instead of grandstanding in press conferences.

The refugee board can fast track those who are suspected of abusing the
system. The immigration department has similar powers and they should seek
to have traffickers detained until their immigration hearings can be held.

Legal aid can make some policy decisions not to refer out some claims to
just one or two lawyers.

The minister should use her power to regulate immigration consultants
because the bulk of these Honduran claims seem to be referred through a few
"interpreters" who are really just immigration consultants.

Checked-by: Don Beck