{"id":5779,"date":"2015-01-14T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:03:54","slug":"call-for-support-roma-family-facing-deportation-to-hungary-in-two-weeks-where-neo-nazi-violence-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/call-for-support-roma-family-facing-deportation-to-hungary-in-two-weeks-where-neo-nazi-violence-is-on-the-rise","title":{"rendered":"Call for support: Roma family facing deportation to Hungary in one week, where neo-Nazi violence is on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span lang=\"fr-CA\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/POB15-0120-Roma0070.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5860\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/POB15-0120-Roma0070-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"0121 city roma\" width=\"659\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/POB15-0120-Roma0070-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/POB15-0120-Roma0070-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/POB15-0120-Roma0070.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Anasztazia<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Szilagyi, husband Dezso Nemeth, and their two children Mark (21) and <span lang=\"fr-CA\">Mercedesz<\/span> (10) are scheduled to be deported to Hungary on January 28th. They will apply for stay at Federal Court on 27th. Stay tuned for support actions on Monday and Tuesday.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Summary of <a href=\"\/espanol-summary-of-the-nemeth-familys-struggle\">their story here<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Statement by <a href=\"\/statement-by-anasztazia\">Anasztazia here<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Media <a href=\"\/media-nemeth\">coverage here<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How you can help:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; Write <span lang=\"fr-CA\">or call <\/span>Federal Minister of Immigration Chris Alexander and Federal Minister of Public Safety Steve Blaney and ask them to stop the Nemeth family&#8217;s deportation and give them status in Canada. Point out that the family have been denied a pre-removal risk assessment, <span lang=\"fr-CA\">which would asses<\/span> the violence that this family faces before their January 28th deportation date, and that they have an application for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds currently in process.<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT DETAILS:<\/p>\n<p>E-Mail: Minister@cic.gc.ca and Chris.Alexander@parl.gc.ca or Fax: 613-996-1289 or Fax: 905-426-9564<\/p>\n<p>Email: <span class=\"\"><i>steven.blaney@parl.gc.ca and <\/i><\/span><span class=\"\">blanes1b@parl.gc.ca or <span class=\"st\"><em>Fax<\/em>: 418-830-0504<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Montreal, 13 January 2015 \u2013 A Roma refugee family settled in Montreal for over three years could be deported before the end of January, forcing them to return with their ten year old daughter to a country where they faced racist violence. Deportation will also separate the family from two adult children who were accepted as refugees last year. Immigration officials are refusing to give the family a pre-removal risk assessment because the Conservative government considers Hungary to be a safe country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018designated country of origins\u2019 list, established in December 2012, sets up a two-tier immigration system. If Hungary were not listed, the Nemeth family would have been eligible for a PRRA since May 2014. Because it is listed, they are not eligible until May 2016,\u201d said the family\u2019s lawyer, \u00c9ric Taillefer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Taillefer successfully argued a stay application in front of the Federal Court for another Hungarian Roma family in June last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Nemeth family left their hometown of Sarhida in Hungary for Canada in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to leave Hungary, but we had to come to Canada,\u201d Anastazia said. \u201cWe were targeted by the rise of racist violence in Hungary because we are Roma. We became scared for the lives of our children, and for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day my son came home from school and he was black and blue, full of bruises. After that he refused to go back to school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Young <span lang=\"fr-CA\">Mercedesz<\/span> also experienced bullying at school, by students and teachers alike.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, a year after the Nemeth family came to Canada, Anasztazia and Dezso\u2019s two older children, still in Hungary, had rocks thrown at their home, as anti-Roma slurs and death threats were uttered. Following the incident, they left to join their family in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>While the two older children were eventually accepted as refugees in June 2014, their mother, father and two siblings saw their claim for asylum rejected in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the two older children were accepted shows that refugee board officials do not agree with the Conservative government that Hungary is safe for Roma,\u201d said Leah Freedman, for Solidarity Across Borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatements by this government assume the Roma are not a persecuted group in Europe, depicting them as \u2018bogus refugees\u2019 and discouraging them from seeking asylum in the country. Yet, with the rise of extreme-right movements in Europe, Roma continue to face widespread persecution, hatred and violence,\u201d said Dafina Savic of the Montreal-based Roma advocacy organization, Romanipe. \u201cUp until this day hate speech against Roma is not only ignored but often encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur whole life is in Montreal, with our children and grandchildren,\u201d Anasztazia said.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedesz has had the chance to advance in school and feels cared for in her community. She speaks and writes French fluently. She does not read or write in Hungarian.<\/p>\n<p>The family has applied for permanent residence on humanitarian grounds, but fear they will be deported before they get an answer.<\/p>\n<p>To read a statement by Anasztazia, <a title=\"Statement by Anasztazia\" href=\"\/statement-by-anasztazia\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Background on <a href=\"\/anti-roma-discrimination-in-hungary\">racism against Rom in Hungary, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No deportations! Status for all!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anasztazia Szilagyi, husband Dezso Nemeth, and their two children Mark (21) and Mercedesz (10) are scheduled to be deported to Hungary on January 28th. They will apply for stay at Federal Court on 27th. Stay tuned for support actions on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/call-for-support-roma-family-facing-deportation-to-hungary-in-two-weeks-where-neo-nazi-violence-is-on-the-rise\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}