Here's a story about a family living in a Canadian church - where they've been for over a year, under sanctuary, aware that stepping outside for fresh air could have them arrested and deported. Their crime: being refugees.
"The Raza family have been living at my (former) home church since August 3, 2006. They moved in to avoid deportation to Pakistan, a country they fled nearly ten years earlier. Canada's imigration policy is to consider the best interest of the children where deportation is being considered, and we do not believe the government followed its policy. Pakistan is a country to which the Canadian government does not recommend travel, and insists that people going to work there leave their children behind. It is a country where the Raza children would surely be endangered based on sexual, racial, and sectarian stereotypes."
- Sarah Bruer
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