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Immigration and border security were two issues that dominated 2024 and help decide the November election as the border crisis loomed large over voters.
In Canada, a nation of 41 million where 2 in 5 people are either immigrants or children of one, the debate has triggered an identity crisis, with a surge in xenophobia that is out of sync with the ...
Not all immigrants who become citizens will vote. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the 2022 election, native-born citizen voter turnout was 53.4%, exceeding the 41.4% turnout of naturalized ...
The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped African Americans escape from slavery in the South to free states in the north and to Canada. [4] Harriet Tubman helped enslaved Black people escape to Canada. [5] Around some 1,500 African Americans migrated to the Plains region of Canada in the years between 1905 and 1912.
Unlike in the United States, racial segregation in Canada applied to all non-whites and was historically enforced through laws, court decisions and social norms with a closed immigration system that barred virtually all non-whites from immigrating until 1962. Section 38 of the 1910 Immigration Act permitted the government to prohibit the entry ...
These changes represented a marked shift from the previous "study, work and stay" approach that had characterized Canadian immigration policy. The government also announced enhanced security measures along the Canada–United States border. The policy shift created uncertainty for 100,000's of migrants already in Canada.
African immigration to Canada comprises citizens of countries in Africa who emigrated to Canada, as well as their descendants. According to Statistics Canada, African-born individuals comprised 13.4% of recent immigrants to Canada as of 2016. This was the second largest number of recent immigrants to the nation after Europe, and a four-fold ...
In an aerial view, immigrants wade across the Rio Grande while crossing from Mexico into the United States on January 07, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.