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There was a demonstration in Toronto on Sunday 4th November against Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney.
Mr Kenney was receiving an honorary philosophy degree from Israel's Haifa University on Sunday at a ceremony in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper attended the event.. Mr Kenney was honoured by the Israeli university for 'his steadfast position against anti-Semitism, racism and intolerance'.
President Obama has said that he hopes to reform the US skilled immigration system. He has not given any details but has said that he hopes to do it soon, taking advantage of the fact that the Republicans seem to be willing to reform the entire immigration regime in the wake of their election defeat.
A leading academic has written a letter to the prestigious Financial Times newspaper complaining that the UK government's immigration policy is damaging the higher education sector.
An Australian Union is seeking to create legally binding agreements that would require employers to advertise jobs to try and find Australian workers and Australian residents before being allowed to recruit international workers to come to Australia on temporary work visas.
Children's charity Save the Children has warned that there are 200,000 Syrian children facing discomfort and maybe death because they have inadequate clothing and bedding to cope with the winter in the refugee camps they are living in, having been displaced by the civil war in Syria.
The United Nation High Commission for Refugees has estimated that 2.5m people have been displaced by the fighting in Syria and are living within Syria away from their own homes. A further 400,000 people, at least, have left the country. Most are living in the surrounding countries of Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon.
The UK government has announced that it is to opt into an agreement between Turkey and the European Union that could see many illegal immigrants from Turkey and from other Asian countries expelled from the EU and sent to Turkey.