A coalition of eight immigrant, refugee and Latin American community groups have been denied participant status by the BC Coroners Service into the tragic and shameful death of Lucia Vega Jimenez.
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The UK and France are commonly perceived as the former dominant colonial powers in Africa, retaining commercial interests in their former colonial territories. In the last few years an emerging discourse has emerged in the West about China’s involvement in Africa. Yet the reality is that Canadian mining corporations continue to dominate mining activities in Africa.
Osman Fernando de León Reyes, a 29-year old Guatemalan man, is facing deportation from Surrey next week. His lawyer is seeking a judicial stay order from the Federal Court of Canada to urgently stop his deportation so that Mr. Reyes is not separated from his family and not deported back to imminent danger in Guatemala.
Yesterday a media leak revealed that immigration officials are recommending the removal of citizenship rights from babies born to non-residents in Canada. This came on the heels of the racial profiling and arrest of 21 undocumented workers in Ontario this weekend. A network of immigrant and refugee groups is condemning both these developments as symptomatic of a “racist system of managed migration.”