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Speak Out: United to Break the Fear, Status for All

We are ALL essential https://www.facebook.com/events/304688937346155/ Sunday, July 26th at 2pm at the offices of Immigration Canada and the Border Services Agency 1010 St-Antoine West, Montreal (Bonaventure metro) * bring your children! * if you wish to participate in the rally…

4 July: Mass Rally and March: Status for all! Everyone is Essential!

July 4th 2020 at 11am Place Émilie-Gamelin (Berri-UQAM metro station) In collaboration with other groups, and as part of the cross-Canada campaign for Status for All (www.migrantrights.ca), Solidarity Across Borders is organizing a march, “Status for all! We are all…

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…