FOR EVERY MOMENT WITHOUT STATUS, FOR EVERY MINUTE IN DETENTION, FOR EVERY INHUMANE DEPORTATION: SHUT DOWN CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION CANADA!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH 1:00 P.M.
GATHER: Front Entrance, C.I.C. – 300 West Georgia (corner Hamilton)

How many of us have seen our friends and families go through the fear and humiliation of detention hearings, reporting proceedings, and deportations at 300 West Georgia? Borne the pain of the separation of our families and communities? Witnessed the punishment and criminalization of our loved ones for having made the courageous decision to migrate?

On April 25th we will be rallying to shut down the offices of Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC) and the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Vancouver – the institutions which daily take away the dignity and security of our communities through the detention and deportation regime.

We will be shutting down CIC in response to every policy that is shutting the border tighter – forcing up to 500,000 individuals to live without status across the country, about 13,000 people to be deported annually; thousands to be detained; thousands to never make it across the border due to agreements signed by the US and Canada including the Safe Third Country Agreement and the highly secretive Security Prosperity Partnership Agreement; and tens of thousands of others to be forced into choosing exploitative guest worker and temporary foreign worker programs.

As immigrants, migrants, refugees and their allies get ready to once again take to the streets in the thousands across North America on May 1st to demand an end to deportations and detentions and full and inclusive regularization programs we will be rallying to join this movement for true dignity and justice.

Immigrants, migrants and undocumented peoples have always formed the backbone of the Canadian economy – but if our sweat and blood are good enough for this country, so too should be our families, our well-being, and our rights and dignity as human beings. Join us on APRIL 25TH! Don’t get silent – get in the streets!