/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1760/all en /newsroom/channels/news/does-immigration-really-increase-crime-347099 <p>Many people who oppose immigration say that it increases crime. But does immigration really affect crime? Studying a country whose proportion of migrants has tripled in less than ten years, researchers find immigration significantly impacts people’s perceptions of crime but has no effect on actual crime.</p> <p>The research, led by <a href="/newsroom/nicolas-ajzenman">Nicolas Ajzenman</a>, a professor of economics at UUÖ±²¥, shows that while migrants don’t cause crime rates to increase, false perceptions endure anyway.</p> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:05:36 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 297188 at /newsroom /newsroom/edward-dunsworth Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:33:29 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 261528 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/amnesty-caribbean-immigrants-britain-question-moral-and-human-rights-protection-286654 <p>Prime Minister Theresa May has apologised to Caribbean leaders over the Windrush generation controversy, at a Downing Street meeting. She said she was "genuinely sorry" about the anxiety caused by the Home Office threatening the children of Commonwealth citizens with deportation. The UK government "valued" the contribution they had made, she said, and they had a right to stay in the UK. It comes amid reports some are still facing deportation. (source BBC News)</p> <p> </p> Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:36:09 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 37632 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-daca-and-tps-283863 <p>Jose Mauricio Gaona, O’Brien Fellow at the UUÖ±²¥ Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism</p> <p>Under US law, immigration authorities may exercise discretionary powers to allow otherwise inadmissible or removable aliens to enter or remain in the country. Such powers include, but are not limited to: (i) deferred actions, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(d)(2), e.g., DACA, (ii) parole to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A), and (iii) Temporary Protected Status for foreign nationals of designated states and circumstances, 8 U.S.C. § 1254(a), e.g., El Salvador, Haiti.</p> Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:15:13 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 32832 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/migrant-crisis-europe-response-not-effective-254740 <p> Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:25:48 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 24434 at /newsroom