{"id":9585,"date":"2023-06-15T10:08:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:08:44","slug":"release-undocumented-migrants-deliver-stop-sign-to-trudeau-in-response-to-terrifying-cbsa-home-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidarityacrossborders.org\/en\/release-undocumented-migrants-deliver-stop-sign-to-trudeau-in-response-to-terrifying-cbsa-home-visits","title":{"rendered":"Release. Undocumented Migrants Deliver Stop Sign to Trudeau in Response to Terrifying CBSA Home Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Montreal, 14 June 2023 – Undocumented migrants, accompanied by community organizations, visited the offices of Justin Trudeau today to deliver a giant \u201cstop\u201d sign. The action came in response to visits by CBSA officers to arrest undocumented community members in their homes as well as a surge in deportation letters received by refused refugees in Montreal. The delegation also unfurled a giant scroll covered in the names of undocumented community members who have been organizing together in Montreal to demand a full regularization programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last several weeks, we have witnessed CBSA arriving at the homes of undocumented migrants in Montreal with the intention of arresting and deporting them. We have heard of CBSA using entrapment practices to arrest other undocumented migrants. At the same time, there has been a marked increase in letters starting deportation proceedings for people who have been refused as refugees,\u201d said Dounia, the group\u2019s spokesperson, herself refused as a refugee, along with her husband and teenage daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is the regularization programme we have been promised? Many of us here today, along with dozens of other undocumented leaders from across Canada, met with Minister Fraser last November! He promised that deportations would stop when the programme was announced. We are here today to ask Prime Minister Trudeau to announce a full regularization programme that gives permanent residence to all undocumented migrants and refused refugees, without exclusion or discrimination, and without further delay. We are all essential,\u201d said Mariana.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is terrifying when CBSA arrives at your home to arrest you. They come in force and show your photo to neighbours. But we will not give in to fear and intimidation. We will not stop until deportations cease and we all receive permanent residence,\u201d said Carmel, one of the participants who was away from her home when CBSA came to arrest her.<\/p>\n

\u201cCBSA must stop terrorizing us. My family can\u2019t even live together. My husband is afraid to get emergency medical care. No one should have to go into hiding in fear that armed agents will arrive to arrest, imprison and deport them away from their child and wife. No one should be subject to the uncertainty, stress and fear of deportation proceedings,\u201d said Lynda, whose husband and father of her child is undocumented.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are always being asked to justify ourselves. But we are here to ask Prime Minister Trudeau: \u2018How do YOU justify denying us our rights as workers, as human beings, denying us healthcare, forcing us into exploitation and fear, separated from our families? That is why we call for a regularization programme that leaves no one out,\u201d declared Anita.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur message is clear: stop the deportations. Each of us named on this scroll wants to be regularized now. Like thousands of others. We do not deserve to be tracked down like animals. We deserve to be treated like human beings. The only solution is status for all now.\u201d said Jad, another participant in the action, who was forced to leave his home several days ago after neighbours threatened to denounce him to CBSA.<\/p>\n

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Contact: solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Source:
\nSolidarity Across Borders
\nwww.solidarityacrossborders.org<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montreal, 14 June 2023 – Undocumented migrants, accompanied by community organizations, visited the offices of Justin Trudeau today to deliver a giant \u201cstop\u201d sign. The action came in response to visits by CBSA officers to arrest undocumented community members in…<\/p>\n

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