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Indian refugee claims in Canada began rising after Prime Minister Modi took power, data shows
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/india-refugee-modi-1.6983416
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Randhir Singh said the Indian police officers kicked him in the face, knocking out two teeth, and beat him with wooden sticks while they held him at the station for three days.
They are able to stay in Canada under a temporary resident permit issued in August by the federal immigration minister, narrowly averting deportation back to India.
“What that’s saying is that Canada is recognizing that there is persecution and human rights violations in India,” said Rehaag, an associate professor at Osgoode Law School and director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, which hosts the lab.
Some experts say the numbers are fuelled by unscrupulous immigration-brokers, who sell fake documents and concocted stories to well-off Indian nationals seeking greener pastures in North America.
Modi’s government reacted with fury to Canada’s claim earlier this month that intelligence showed India’s hand in the June killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C.
“The [National Investigation Agency] has made the accusation that my parents are doing money laundering and of being involved in a conspiracy against India, which is completely untrue,” he stated in the affidavit
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