NATIVE WARRIOR DEPORTED BY CANADIAN BORDER SERVICES AGENCY

January 2013 – A young Indigenous land defender and father (name currently withheld) living on unceded Secwepemc territory has been detained and deported south of the colonial border by Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA).

No One Is Illegal-Vancouver Unceded Coast Salish Territories has been organizing in solidarity with Secwepemc land defenders for a decade. We have known this warrior and land defender for many years. This Indigenous Taino brother and his Secwepemc family have inspired people across Turtle Island to protect the land, to practice traditional ways, to raise proud and decolonizing families.

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Canada’s controversial 2012 changes to immigration and refugee system

Debra Black and Nicholas Keung
Immigration Reporters

http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/immigration/article/1308263–immigration-and-refugee-system-canada-made-controversial-changes-in-2012

Over the past year Ottawa has made some sweeping and controversial changes to the immigration, asylum and refugee system, and the rules involving Canadian citizenship.
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“Immigration detention cholbey na! cholbey na!”* (immigration detention will not be tolerated!)

Report on day of action Free the three, Freedom for migrants, End detentions!

The numbers are shocking: since 2004, at least 95,000 immigrants have experienced detention; the longest held – under the notorious ‘security certificate ‘ regime – for more than 12 years. The figures are set to climb as new legislation gives the immigration minister the power to mark certain migrants arriving in Canada for mandatory detention. Yet it is not cold numbers but the impact on our communities and on people we love – the humiliation, re-traumatization, feeling of powerlessness, bewilderment, fear, family separation, the lives put on hold – that motivates us to put an end to this system of injustice.

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Here are links to some recent articles and interviews on the importance of the idle no more movement and Indigenous struggles (there are many more, just picked ten, feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments):

Idle No More pamphlet ‘Resetting and Restoring the Relationship ‘ authored
by Taiaiake Alfred and Tobold Rollo: http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/idle-no-more-pamphlet/

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https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nooneisillegal/

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