Friends, supporters rally for B.C. family facing deportation to Mexico & More News Here

On Nov. 30, Rosales Contreras was detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency after dropping her daughter off at Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School, stated Omar Chu of the migrant advocacy group Sanctuary Health.

Rosales Contreras was launched shortly afterwards, however elimination proceedings are ongoing. 

Chu stated the CBSA is continuous with elimination proceedings for Rosales Contreras and her husband, regardless of the actual fact they’ve ongoing functions for everlasting residence and a short lived residence allow. 

Aziz says the appliance course of doesn’t cease a elimination continuing and the couple has been requested to go away Canada by the start of July. If deported, they’ll take their Canadian-born daughter with them.

Supporters of the couple are calling on Immigration Minister Sean Fraser to guarantee their functions are processed and permitted earlier than the elimination date. 

At their unique refugee listening to, the board discovered the couple confronted actual threat in Mexico however didn’t grant their refugee declare.

“What they were fleeing was some very serious death threats and violence from organized crime groups, along with an inability of the state to protect them,” Aziz stated.

The couple had no authorized illustration on the time and did not understand how to navigate the attraction course of, Aziz stated. The couple, whose daughter has by no means been to Mexico, is attempting to apply for everlasting resident standing.

CBSA didn’t touch upon the case citing privateness issues, however stated the company has a authorized obligation to take away international nationals who don’t have any authorized standing to stay in Canada.

People who’re topic to enforcement motion have entry to due course of, the company stated, and “those being removed have either exhausted, or chosen not to pursue, further legal recourse and have no legal right to remain in Canada.”

The New Westminster School District has a sanctuary faculties coverage that goals to give school-aged youngsters entry to training with out worry of their private data being shared with immigration authorities, no matter their immigration standing.

Chu stated CBSA officers monitored the college and arrested Rosales Contreras after she dropped her daughter off at faculty.

“We feel like this was a huge attack on sanctuary school policies,” he stated.

In its assertion, the CBSA stated “there is no legal restriction preventing the CBSA from carrying out necessary enforcement actions outside a school to execute an arrest warrant.”

Chu stated the family may be very a lot a part of the neighborhood. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they helped ship meals to households in want and volunteered with vaccine clinics. 

“They shouldn’t have to be heroes,” Chu stated. “The bar isn’t that high to be able to come here and seek safety in Canada. But they are. And that just makes it all the more outrageous that we’re in this position that we’re in.”