STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 18/06/01 17:37:29 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Immigration Update OCAP's fight on many fronts is continuing. Citizenship and Immigration Canada is again refusing to act in a decent and compassionate manner in their dealings with two families on the verge of deportation. After a large showing of support from OCAP members and CAW flying squads at the Greater Toronto Enforcement Centre, Sarah Kanamwangi, mother of three Canadian-born children, had been awaiting a response from Immigration Canada. The action, which was more than 70 people strong, resulted in a meeting being granted with top GTEC officials and Immigration Canada conceding to conducting a risk assessment. Sarah has since received a negative decision in this assessment, which pushes Sarah and her small daughters one step closer to deportation to Uganda. Immigration Canada does not deem the wellbeing and rights of Sarah's children to be grounds for granting her landed status, nor does it feel that Sarah's return to a country where she has been jailed to be in any way a risk. Another OCAP case which has reached a critical stage is that of Mary Komolafe and her 4 year old son Jimi, who are facing deportation to Nigeria after their Humanitarian and Compassionate Claim was refused by Immigration Canada. A removal order on Mary means she is being forced to choose between leaving behind her Canadian-born daughter Jane, who is two years old, or taking her to Nigeria, where she will be circumcised against her mother's wishes. Mary has lived in Canada for several years, working with her partner, who is landed, to create a stable home for her children. Jimi attends Kindergarden and both he and his sister speak only English. The family would return to patriarchal Nigeria, where Mary would be powerless to stop the circumcision of her daughter, and where the two children would be without the man they call their father. OCAP allies and supporters have shown their commitment to both of these families in the past. OCAP is calling on the union flying squads, community members and academics who have stood up for the futures of Sarah, Mary and the children to be available for impending emergency action. >> ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Immigration Update OCAP's fight on many fronts is continuing. Citizenship and Immigration Canada is again refusing to act in a decent and compassionate manner in their dealings with two families on the verge of deportation. After a large showing of support from OCAP members and CAW flying squads at the Greater Toronto Enforcement Centre, Sarah Kanamwangi, mother of three Canadian-born children, had been awaiting a response from Immigration Canada. The action, which was more than 70 people strong, resulted in a meeting being granted with top GTEC officials and Immigration Canada conceding to conducting a risk assessment. Sarah has since received a negative decision in this assessment, which pushes Sarah and her small daughters one step closer to deportation to Uganda. Immigration Canada does not deem the wellbeing and rights of Sarah's children to be grounds for granting her landed status, nor does it feel that Sarah's return to a country where she has been jailed to be in any way a risk. Another OCAP case which has reached a critical stage is that of Mary Komolafe and her 4 year old son Jimi, who are facing deportation to Nigeria after their Humanitarian and Compassionate Claim was refused by Immigration Canada. A removal order on Mary means she is being forced to choose between leaving behind her Canadian-born daughter Jane, who is two years old, or taking her to Nigeria, where she will be circumcised against her mother's wishes. Mary has lived in Canada for several years, working with her partner, who is landed, to create a stable home for her children. Jimi attends Kindergarden and both he and his sister speak only English. The family would return to patriarchal Nigeria, where Mary would be powerless to stop the circumcision of her daughter, and where the two children would be without the man they call their father. OCAP allies and supporters have shown their commitment to both of these families in the past. OCAP is calling on the union flying squads, community members and academics who have stood up for the futures of Sarah, Mary and the children to be available for impending emergency action.
