MIGRATION INTELLIGENCE Information, assessment
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MIGRATION
INTELLIGENCE
Information, assessment
& mitigation
February 2012
INTRODUCTION
• Presentation Outline:
An explanation of Canada’s immigration
intelligence network
An immigration intelligence case study:
migrant vessel prevention operations
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Immigration Intelligence
What is it?
The identification and assessment of threats to the integrity of Canada's
immigration, visitor, refugee, and citizenship programs and to public
safety and national security
Who does it?
Three-tiered network:
Regional: local offices of Canada’s law enforcement and
intelligence agencies
National: HQ intelligence branches
International: Liaison officers posted abroad
What does it do?
Assists to mitigate risks associated with security, terrorism, organized
crime
Promotes interoperability and information sharing in the wider
intelligence and law enforcement community
MIGRANT VESSELS:
An immigration intelligence case study
Canada has experienced the arrival of two marine migrant
smuggling vessels (October 2009 and August 2010)
Before the arrivals of the MVs Ocean Lady and Sun Sea,
the last significant maritime entry was approximately 600
migrants and asylum seekers from Fujian Province, China
in 1999.
MIGRANT VESSELS CONT’D
Goals
Prevent marine smuggling operations overseas
Prosecute those responsible for planning,
organising & facilitating the MV’s Ocean Lady &
Sun Sea
Dismantle the international criminal network
orchestrating human smuggling operations, in
Canada & abroad.
MIGRANT VESSELS CONT’D
Intelligence Objectives
Strategic: identify developing trends
Operational: identify geographic areas of
concern
Tactical: identify organizers
MIGRANT VESSELS CONT’D
Actions:
Expansion of traditional overseas networks focus to
developing relationships in the marine mode with border and
immigration partners in identified countries of interest
QUESTIONS?