Migrant protest demands regularization and end of “scapegoating”
Global News
Hundreds of migrants and their supporters marched through the streets of Montreal demanding regularization for all and for an end to the scapegoating of migrants.
Dozens of migrants and their supporters gathered in Montreal on Saturday to demand full regularization for all, and for political leaders to stop blaming asylum seekers for systemic problems.
“People have waited long enough and we really need a broad, comprehensive regularization program now without exceptions,” said Mostafa Henaway of the Immigrant Workers Centre.
Many on hand came to Canada as refugees. They fled difficult, sometimes deadly situations in their home countries to seek a better life.
Harjinder Singh said he arrived from India in 2019, after fleeing violence related to the Khalistan movement. He said he works at Dollarama, asks for no help from the government, but has not been able to get permanent residency.
“I regularly pay my rent and my taxes,” he said, expressing fears that he may one day be forced to return to India.
Migrants are calling on the Trudeau government to fulfill a 2011 promise to bring in a full regularization program.
Without official status, they’re excluded from many public services.
“We’re happy to employ them in our day cares, but we don’t want them accessing our daycares,” decried Henaway.
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