[WAM!Van] Launching Multilingual Border Guide for Refugees from U.S

[Harsha W.]

LAUNCHING: Border Rights for Refugees

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​On the heels of Refugee Rights Day, a free multilingual guide for
non-U.S. citizens coming to Canada from the U.S. to make a refugee claim.

Thousands of refugees are crossing the Canada-U.S. border, many fleeing
escalated sociopolitical, white supremacist, misogynist violence and I.C.E
raids in the U.S.

In the first two months of this year, approximately 2000 refugee claims
were filed at land ports of entry along the Canadian border. In Quebec
alone there are six times more land-border refugee claims than in the same
period last year. RCMP have intercepted or arrested (not yet charged)
1,134 refugees - nearly half as many asylum seekers in three months as all
of the previous year.

Hundreds have been forced to cross irregularly under dangerous and
life-threatening circumstances. People who have contacted us and our
networks are primarily from Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Djibouti, Ghana,
Nigeria, and Mexico.

The Canadian government and corporate media's rhetoric about 'welcoming
refugees' is misleading. There are many discriminatory and unjust
barriers, such as the Safe Third Country Agreement that the Canadian
government refuses to rescind, and a difficult legal system for refugees
to navigate if coming through the U.S. This guide is to better inform and
support those making the difficult decision to cross yet another colonial
border.

The guide is produced by No One Is Illegal and the Immigration Legal
Committee of the Law Union of Ontario. Supported by the African-Canadian
Legal Clinic.

Translations are available in Arabic, Amharic, Chinese (Simplified),
Farsi, Filipino (Standardized), French, Haitian Creole, Kurdish (Sorani),
Punjabi, Spanish, Somali, Tamil, Tigrinya, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese.

Freedom to stay, move, and return!


-- 
Harsha Walia

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