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Call to Action in support of Migrants Excluded from Trudeau’s Programme of Regularization: “We are also essential!”

Media yesterday reported that Trudeau is on the point of introducing a regularization programme – but only for refugees who worked in the healthcare sector during the pandemic. Other refugees, undocumented migrants, students, temporary foreign workers, caregivers and others are…

Denounce CBSA’s Use of Tracking Bracelets on Migrants Under Cover of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tracking is Not Freedom! Act Now in Solidarity #NoMigrantMonitoring #FreeThemAll Under cover of the pandemic, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Québec is now forcing migrants to accept electronic tracking bracelets as a condition of their release from detention. …

Call to Action: regularization is the only solution in this time of crisis

#StatusForAll #FreeThemAll After several weeks of confinement and despite a call for help from undocumented people and their allied organizations, the Canadian government has continued to ignore the concerning situation of hundreds of thousands of non-status people. Across Canada, thousands…

As Laval Detention Centre Empties, CBSA Pushes Tracking Bracelets on Migrants

Community Update #FreeThemAll #StatusForAll #HungerStrikeLaval #BordeauxHungerStrike Solidarity action at the Laval Immigration Holding Centre, April 19th 2020. After two months of resistance by detainees and their supporters, the Laval Immigration Holding Centre now stands almost empty. Only 2 men and…

Undocumented migrants speak out: regularization is the only solution in this time of crisis.

Montréal April 29, 2020 To our neighbours, In a socioeconomic context almost entirely dominated by COVID-19, which has upset the status quo and undermined our daily habits in a far-reaching way, it has become more clear to us than ever…

Statement on the Disruption of our April 19th Press Conference

[Content Warning: mention of sexual abuse of children]   On April 19th, Solidarity Across Borders organized an online press conference to launch the #FreeThemAll #StatusForAll caravan mobilization taking place from coast to coast. We invited journalists to hear from those…

April 19 #FreeThemAllCaravan Reportback and Video

. On April 19th, solidarity caravans drove to prisons and migrant detention centres across the country as part of a day of action against imprisonment. The caravans made noise and held signs in solidarity with those locked up. This mobilization…

COVID-19 Fundraiser | We still need your support.

We still need your support, please consider taking a moment to donate to our COVID-19 fundraiser as a way to directly support our non-status community members. Many members of the Solidarity Across Borders network who have lost their jobs are…

#HungerStrikeLaval Teach in – The Struggle Continues

Ex-detainees and hunger strikers speak up about the urgency of releasing all those detained amidst COVID-19 pandemic. When: Saturday 11 April Time: 2pm to 4pm Place: Online. Facebook event *** Please sign up here and we will send a link…

Act Now: Guard tests positive for COVID-19 at Laval Immigration Holding Centre

Under media pressure, first Garda and then the CBSA reluctantly confirmed multiple reports from the Laval Immigration Holding Centre that a security guard tested positive for COVID-19. The Garda employee has reportedly been placed in quarantine, along with other guards…