Deportation in Five Days: “Don’t Take Away My Husband!”
What: Emergency Action to Appeal to Immigration Minister Marc Miller
When: Monday, 28 August at Noon
Where: Riding office of Marc Miller, 3175 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montréal
Speakers:
Fatima*, who is sponsoring her husband, Mr. S.*
Samira Jasmin, Solidarity Across Borders
Spokesperson, South Asian Diaspora Action Collective
Ze Bénédicte Carole
Family and supporters of a man facing deportation on Thursday, August 31st will rally at Marc Miller’s office in Montreal to demand that his deportation be stopped and that he be released from detention. Mr. S. was ordered to leave Canada after his refugee application was rejected. He is being held at the Laval Immigration Holding Centre pending deportation.
If he is deported, Mr. S. will be separated from his wife, Fatima. The couple put in a spousal sponsorship over a year ago. They are asking the new Minister of Immigration to simply allow Mr. S. to remain in Canada until they have a response on their application. A survivor of gender violence, Fatima has been re-traumatized by her husband’s arrest and looming deportation.
In December 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau asked then immigration minister Sean Fraser to regularise undocumented migrants in Canada. This promise remains unfulfilled even though Immigration Canada began to develop a regularisation programme. In spring 2023, the United Nations recognized the problem of undocumented migrants as a human rights crisis, calling on states worldwide to create regularisation programmes. Solidarity Across Borders calls on Minister Miller to act quickly to regularise undocumented migrants, so that people like Fatima and her husband are no longer placed in such situations.
