Ana Karen Vasquez Flores was a pregnant woman from Mexico who was looking for a new life in the U.S. where her husband was waiting for her. Her body was found in upstate New York.
Republicans and Democrats have been engaged in political ping-pong over migration, bussing migrants from red to blue states. Now the issue has reached Canada as the migrants are pushed ever further north.
Members of the Montreal community and Haitian diaspora gathered late Sunday to honour the memory of Fritznel Richard, a Haitian migrant whose body was found near the Canadian border in early January.
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As many celebrated Mother’s Day Sunday, protesters in several cities across Canada, including Montreal, rallied to draw attention to the precarious situation of migrants living without permanent residency status in Canada.
“This is a very sad day for a lot of women who have been left behind by the Canadian government, which has decided not to include undocumented people in the government’s regularization program”, said Eloy Rivas, a spokesperson for Solidarity Across Borders, which organized Montreal’s event.
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