Illegal migration is one of the key issues to be tackled the world over. Since Canada is one of the worst effected in this regard, the immigration officials from the nation are seeking advice from their counterparts in Australia.

It was revealed by Jason Kenney, the Canadian Prime Minister that the immigration department of the nation has contacted the immigration intelligence of Australia in order to combat the constant inflow of asylum seekers who are entering Canada. The Prime Minister also mentioned the Australian immigration intelligence as an evidence for the need of having stronger laws for immigration, especially those entering the nation illegally.

According to Mr. Kenney, the Australians are equipped with enormous intelligence capacity in all the transit nations where these smuggling consortiums operate. It seems that these intelligence sources have found that these syndicates have been targeting Canada for all these activities and have the capacity to bring in more such large vessels every year into the nation. If this information is right and if action is not taken; more vessels like the Sun Sea might come about in due course of time in the next year. This would definitely pose a threat to the public consensus on immigration and refugee protection in the nation.

A few days, the Prime Minister had brought about a fresh set of tough laws against asylum seekers who have entered the nation illegally. Of the many laws brought about, the most controversial is the one which permits the Public Safety Minister to decide if the refugee claimant is eligible as being “irregular” arrivals when he has come to the nation illegally. Such claimants could then be detained for almost a year till the investigation takes place.

Recently, a boat containing 492 Tamil migrants had arrived in the nation illegally which led to fresh investigations into the issue of illegal migration.