Immigration policy and the terrorist threat in Canada and the United States

He is the author of The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, Loyalty and Saving the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership: The Case for a North American Standards and Regulatory Area. [...] This volume began as a series of papers presented at a conference in Toronto in June 2007, titled, “Immigration Policy, Border Controls, and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States.” Both the conference and the edited volume have been supported generously by the Barbara & Bob Mitchell Fund and the Aurea Foundation. [...] Salim Mansur, who teaches political science at the University of Western Ontario, follows Stoffman with an exposé on how the recent threat of jihadist terror has brought to the fore the dangerous nexus between large-scale immigration and limited levels of integration among some immigrant communities in Western societies, includ- ing Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. [...] The next theme in the book, “Balancing Liberty and Security in the New Environment,” addresses the important question raised by many scholars and critics of governmental policies in both Canada and the United States since 9/11 of how basic civil liberties, as well as respect for cultural diversity and openness to newcomers, can be maintained in the face of the new threats of terrorism. [...] Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat to address the serious flaws in Canada’s refugee and asylum systems and the lack of security in its immigration system.