Friday, November 3, 2006

Salvadoran family risks deportation from Canada

Baseball great Yogi Berra once said “it’s déjà vu al over again” and that’s definitely the regarding an immigration case in Canada. Back in July we told you of the case of the controversy surrounding the Lizano-Sossa family who had been deported from Canada to Costa Rica even though one of the children was Canadian-born.

Now comes the case of an El Salvadoran family who is in danger of being deported from Canada after living illegally there for 5 years and raising two Canadian-born children. German Melgar fears that “if we go back I am afraid they (government) will take my children (Anderson, 3, and one-month-old Kimberly) and torture or kill them…we cannot expose our children to a life of running, if we run we will have no chance of winning”. Appeals to senior Canadian immigration authorities have thus far been denied leaving Melgar and his family facing a difficult ultimatum: leave Canada by November 30th or face arrest.

Links- quoteland.com, The Latin Americanist (blog), Penticton Herald (Canada)

Image- immigration4canada.com (Canadian passport)

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:14 PM

    The family in Oliver that you're mentioning are not living here "illegally". Their application for Refugee Status was held up, then refused by Gov't. The lawyer the Gov't appointed did not show up and the translation was incorrect. It has taken this long for the Gov't to reply to their application. But without an explanation, just one month to leave. The couple have been working & paying taxes for 5 years in Canada. Gov't officials have refused to respond to their emails, letters and phone calls.

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