A Mexican family is scheduled for deportation on Dec. 19, despite the fact their application has not yet been processed by Immigration Canada
Hospital housekeeper Claudia Zamorano, her husband, nine-year-old daughter, and her husband’s mother and brother fled from threats of violence in their home city of Colima in 2017, but their refugee claim has been denied.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The provincial call comes days after the Hospital Employees’ Union, which represents Zamorano, and local migrant rights groups urged federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos to intervene and ask Immigration Minister Sean Fraser to approve the family’s application. “And yet, this December, six days before Christmas, we’ll be deporting a health-care worker, her daughter — who has only ever known the Canadian school system — and their family back to Mexico, where their safety is at risk. It doesn’t make any sense.”
Meena Brisard, secretary-business manager for the Hospital Employees’ Union, said the immigration minister could approve Zamorano’s residency application “to keep another needed health care worker on the job.”The union and Sanctuary Health are also calling on Fraser to reopen the health care worker refugee track and widen it to include essential health care workers like Zamorano.
Even if their application is approved, the toll of the years-long process on Zamorano has been immense.Through the course of her family’s six different applications and appeals, she began suffering anxiety attacks that left her whole body shaking. She works full time and has been handling all the paperwork for all five family members.
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