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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jun 02, 2015
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• Category : Diaspora News
• Description : SUSAN SEMENAK, MONTREAL GAZETTE
  More from Susan Semenak, Montreal Gazette
  Published on: May 31, 2015
  Last Updated: May 31, 2015 7:56 PM EDT
  
  Photo: Amir Hod Hod at a press conference to announce a march to Ottawa from Montreal by refugee supporters on June 26. Phil Carpenter / Montreal Gazette
• Location : Montreal, QC, Canada
• Website : http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montrealers-march-against-deportation-of-migrants-to-haiti-and-zimbabwe?utm_source=d

Overview

• They walked from the St. Michel métro station to Jarry Park. It’s a protest march held every year to demand an end to the deportations of tens of thousands of people who are refused refugee and immigration status in Canada.
  
  But Sunday’s march was especially important, says organizer Romina Hernandez of Solidarity Across Borders, because as of Monday, some 3,500 people from Haiti and Zimbabwe who have been rejected as refugees lose all status in Canada.
  
  Until now they have been protected by a moratorium that prevented their return to their home countries, on humanitarian grounds. That moratorium was lifted by the federal government in December, and is just now set to take effect.
  
  Some have applied to continue to stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds, but most could not afford the fees required to apply, say critics of the government’s actions.
  
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