BREAKING: Today 50 elected representatives from every province are issuing a statement to PM
@JustinTrudeau
calling for income supports and all rights for all essential workers, regardless of immigration status
#CERB
#LeaveNoOneBehind
Our hearts hurt.
A family of four including a baby and a teenager froze to death crossing into the US from Canada.
The question staring at all of us is: How bad is it here that families must risk their lives leaving?
There is no way to look away from the answer.
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Undocumented migrants are bravely sharing stories of exploitation and resistance to call for
#StatusforAll
as PM
@JustinTrudeau
plans a historic regularization program.
🔊Watch!
📲 Share!
📝Sign:
✊ March:
Now is the time.
The
#BCFloods
have displaced hundreds of migrant farmworkers, many have lost everything. Our member Sanctuary Health is providing support at the frontline, and needs financial contribution. Please chip in if you can and share.
#bcfloods
#StatusforAll
And that's a wrap! 2,000+ workers marching the day before
@JustinTrudeau
returns to parliament. Why? Because we need him to deliver on his promise of a comprehensive regularization program.
#StatusForAll
#RegularizationNOW
We are horrified to hear breaking news about six people's bodies found by Akwesasne police on the US-Canada border. One was a child, and a few had Indian passports. Were they trying to cross the border? Who will be responsible for their deaths?
Seven undocumented people are bravely speaking out to share how a comprehensive regularization program would change half a million lives across Canada.
#StatusForAll
Share their voice. Send an email to
@JustinTrudeau
- tell him to
#RegularizeEveryone
➡️
Canada's largest newspaper,
@TorontoStar
, just called for a regularization program without arbitrary limits and linked to our campaign.
The pressure is on! Now we need YOU to join us to win
#StatusforAll
on Sep 18:
Read & Share:
When we say
#RegularizeEveryone
, we mean:
+ No exclusions
+ Include refugees
+ Permanent status, not temporary permits
+ Humanitarian considerations
+
#StatusForAll
so no one else is undocumented
Tell PM
@JustinTrudeau
that you agree:
BREAKING: Migrant care worker organizing has won permanent resident status on arrival! Next stop: status on arrival, and
#StatusForAll
now! PM
@JustinTrudeau
#RegularizeEveryone
.
Join our winning movement, send an email now:
🚨 Urgent Alert 🚨: Shocking data reveals a 104% surge in deportations in Canada over the past 2 years, despite promises of regularization. Tell PM
@JustinTrudeau
to honour his commitment to provide permanent resident
#StatusForAll
:
Do you support equal rights for all migrants, undocumented people, and refugees?
Rally with us TODAY in
#HamOnt
ahead of the federal cabinet retreat at Hamilton Convention Centre to support
#StatusForAll
.
No more deaths, no more deportations!
Join us TODAY we question Canada and discuss the fight for Indigenous self-determination and Black Lives and intersections with the struggle for migrant justice and full immigration status for all.
RSVP:
#CanadaDay
#CancelCanadaDay
Rent is skyrocketing, wages are falling, and groceries cost a fortune. The politicians and corporations causing this crisis want us to blame migrants as a distraction. Rising racism fuels more anti-migrant policies.
We must UNITE and ACT
September 12-15
ANNOUNCEMENT
Today, December 18th, 2018, International Migrants Day, we are forming a new cross-Canada organization, the MIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK, which will combat racism and fight for migrant justice.
JOIN THE NETWORK:
#cdnpoli
#cdnimm
#canlab
Here's our statement on the major victory today. Migrants win path to PR for 90,000 people, but too many are excluded! Includes video and details of the program, please share!
#STATUSFORALL
SEP 18 - Take action for
#StatusforAll
in 12 cities
TORONTO: 2pm, Christie Pits Park
MONTREAL: 2pm, Place du Canada
VANCOUVER: 2:30pm, Grandview Park
EDMONTON: 12pm, Sir Winston Churchill Square
OTTAWA: 2pm, Confederation Park
CHARLOTTETOWN: 1pm, Victoria Park Pavilion
👇
Contrary to what decision makers will tell you, Canada does not welcome refugees and immigrants.
Millions are denied decent work and basic services, and are separated from our families.
We need
#StatusforAll
so that more of us can live.
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Next Monday PM
@JustinTrudeau
and all federal ministers will meet in
#HamOnt
.
Can you CALL as many of 38 Ministers as you can THIS WEEK and tell them to support
#StatusForAll
?
Phone numbers & script here: .
+ sign petition & put up posters!
PM
@JustinTrudeau
promised regularization this spring. Parliament could go on holiday on June 6, and regularization has STILL NOT been decided on.
SEND A NEW EMAIL!
Tell the PM: Don't back down! Reject racism & exploitation. Ensure equality and fairness
Thread of some of the news coverage from this weekend on
#StatusforAll
Canadian Press: Migrants across Canada call on Ottawa for action on regularization, permanent status (published in dozens of outlets)
Bosses pit workers against each other to distract from their abuses.
On
#LabourDay
we say: Migrants do not cause the housing and affordability crisis, billionaires and bad policy do.
Join Sep 12-15 Days of Action for justice and
#StatusForAll
workers:
On July 17, we are taking action for
#StatusforAll
across the country as we push for permanent immigration status and regularization of all migrants including undocumented people. And then join us at our open meeting and phone zap on July 19.
📢 It's time to take to the streets in the thousands to say: YES to immigrant justice and NO to racism.
We must reject racist scapegoating and stand united for
#StatusForAll
.
Join or organize actions across the country on September 14-15, 2024.
On March 24, parliament will vote on income supports during
#COVID
-19 pandemic. Today, more than ever, PM Trudeau, and your MP needs to hear from you. Tell them:
***ENSURE EVERYONE RECEIVES FULL INCOME SUPPORT IMMEDIATELY REGARDLESS OF IMMIGRATION OR PREVIOUS WORK STATUS***
Thousands of us are taking the streets across the country this weekend for
#StatusForAll
. Join us!
Check for changes due to
#HurricaneLee
Make sure politicians hear from you when they return to work next week! Send an email:
“We will not stop. We will not give up. We are going to fight until each and every one of us status in this country”
Starting Sep 16, join us at actions in 15 cities in 9 provinces in Canada + UK, Spain & more!
Tell us you'll be there:
#StatusForAll
Migrants and supporters visited 32 Cabinet Ministers across the country yesterday. We live here, we work here, we build communities. We deserve and we demand
#StatusForAll
.
Add your voice:
Today, we are taking action in 10 cities in Canada & 16 places in Jamaica, Trinidad, St Vincent & Cayman Islands to
#UniteAgainstRacism
and call for
#StatusforAll
.
Join an action
Sign a petition
Make a phone call
Share this image with
@JustinTrudeau
BREAKING: Immigration Canada invited 27,000 people to apply for permanent residency - 440% increase! The 'points' reqd have also been reduced.
Clearly feds can change any immigration rule when they want. Tell them to ensure FULL & PERMANENT IMMIGRATION
#STATUSFORALLL
Now!
Migrants are not raising your home prices, your landlords are. Even when immigration is down, home prices are up. All of us are facing a crisis of inequality, let us unite for justice for all &
#StatusForAll
.
JOIN ACTIONS ON SEP 16 & 17
SHARE NOW!
Today! Rain or Shine! To the streets for
#StatusForAll
TORONTO: 2pm, Christie Pits Park
MONTREAL: 2pm, Place du Canada
VANCOUVER: 2:30pm, Grandview Park
EDMONTON: 12pm, Sir Winston Churchill Square
OTTAWA: 2pm, Confederation Park
CHARLOTTETOWN: 1pm, Victoria Park Pavilion
Permanent resident status for all undocumented people without exclusions will lift half a million people out of poverty.
#StatusForAll
Tell
@JustinTrudeau
it's the right thing to do. Add your name:
As of 12:01 today, Canada will turn back refugees coming in from the US. Police and immigration enforcement will grow to cover the 9000km border, refugees will use even more deadly routes.
Staying silent is not an option. Sign now, more actions soon.
Over 50 organizations have endorsed the September 18 Day of Action in Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal, Miramichi, Ottawa, Sudbury, Toronto, Vancouver + More Cities.
Will you be there?
Find an action near you and endorse:
As an organization of migrants, struggling for the freedom to move, return and stay, we unequivocally supports the Palestinian struggle for liberation, and the right of return. We call on all migrants and supporters to find local protests and join in!
Crises do not affect us equally. Migrant, poor, and racialized people are being excluded from
#COVID19
response measures and are the worst affected by the economic downturn.
Send a strong anti-racist message to leaders to insist no one is left behind!
Have you heard yet? This year we CAN win regularization for all undocumented people and full and permanent immigration
#StatusforAll
if we unite and fight.
🧵on actions leading to the Sep 18 Day of Action across the country. Find an action near you!
Thousands of us marched, rallied, spoke up and postered for
#StatusForAll
last weekend. PM
@JustinTrudeau
- we are a movement for justice and we are everywhere. Keep your promise,
#RegularizeEveryone
.
Join us:
"We know that people who aren’t here regularly need to be supported and taken care of" - PM
@JustinTrudeau
responded because we took action.
KEEP GOING:
🤳 Share this video!
📩 Send an email:
Time is running out.
#RegularizeEveryone
#StatusForAll
WATCH & SHARE!
Thousands of people in 15 cities in Canada + UK, Spain and France took action this weekend calling on PM
@JustinTrudeau
to keep his promise and ensure
#StatusForAll
.
Send an email now and join us:
His name is Juan López Chaparro. Third farmworker to die following Bonifacio Eugenio Romero and Rogelio Santos Muñoz. Farmworkers know that a single COVID-19 infection on a farm puts them all in danger, but they cannot risk speaking out because they don't have citizenship.
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"I don't have any more fear, I don't want to live the life I am living, I want to live a life like any other person" - Charles, undocumented queer migrant.
On Oct 16, it will be 10 months since PM
@JustinTrudeau
promised regularization! Join us at actions at Cabinet Minister offices across Canada to demand regularization for all undocumented migrants and permanent resident
#StatusForAll
without delay
BREAKING: We have learned that federal Cabinet Ministers will soon be voting on regularization! Send a message to all of them to ensure equal rights and
#StatusForAll
1.7 million migrants including undocumented people. Together we can win big!
Today! March 19! Sunday!
Edmonton – 1pm, Alberta Legislature Grounds
Niagara – 2pm, Niagara Falls City Hall
Ottawa - 2pm, 1066 Somerset
Toronto – 2pm, Christie Pits Park
Vancouver – 12pm, CBC Plaza
Victoria – 1pm, 50 Burnside Rd
#StatusForAll
#UniteAgainstRacism
#cdnimm
“People without status and asylum seekers didn’t wait for COVID-19 to become essential workers. We were essential yesterday, we’re essential today.” – Mamadou, Undocumented young man, Montreal, Solidarity Across Borders.
EIGHT DEAD
Authorities on Thursday found the bodies of five adults and one child - members of two families of Romanian and Indian descent. Another child and adult woman's body was discovered Friday.
Mourn and organize
Our migrant worker members on farms across Canada are being told they can’t leave, raising human rights concerns - they speak out here calling for
#Statusforall
Politicians are scapegoating immigrants for the housing and affordability crisis. Migrants aren't taking your jobs, billionaires are.
JOIN US on the streets across Canada on September 12-15 to say NO to racism and YES to immigrant justice.
Immigration Canada's response to
#WarinUkraine
must include:
* Gov assistance to all refugees
* Open work & study permits for all without requiring job offer, being in-school & valid permits
* No Detentions & Deportations +
#StatusforAll
* Safe passage for all + Unite Families
Dear PM
@JustinTrudeau
: Over half a million people like Martha are suffering. Ensure income supports for undocumented people like her. Do it now to stop a human rights catastrophe.
<Plz RT to ensure the PM sees this. Raise your voice to support migrants>
5000+ people
13 cities
United.
Now, Parliament is back, and you must act: Tell
@JustinTrudeau
ensure
#StatusforAll
without exception or delay.
Sign:
Make a phone call:
BREAKING: Minister
@MarcMillerVM
promises broad & comprehensive regularization - which is what we have proposed. Victory is within reach!
We welcome this promise and will continue to fight for
#StatusForAll
. Join us across the country, Dec 16-18, 2023:
PM
@JustinTrudeau
is spending $100+ millions terrifying and deporting people breaking regularization promises.
"I don’t have enough money to eat. I’m so sick because I work so much and I don’t have enough money to take care of myself.”
#StatusForAll
“Prime Minister Trudeau has caved to populist and racist anti-immigrant pressure. We have not heard the same conversation around for example the 600,000 plus Ukrainians who’ve been approved to come to the country. This is simply racism.”
“It is also unconscionable that the government would take this step while the constitutionality of the Safe Third Country Agreement is under review by the Supreme Court of Canada.”
@ccpa
#canlab
@MigrantRightsCA
Today,
#InternationalMigrantsDay
, is the 5th anniversary of our founding.
We look back at our struggles and victories and commit to continue our migrant-led fight for worker and immigration justice.
Please read and share.
500+ organizations and millions of people who value fairness and equality support a regularization program guaranteeing permanent resident
#StatusForAlll
. These are some of those organizations.
Join us! Send an email to PM
@JustinTrudeau
right now:
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🔥This weekend, join us for urgent
#MigrantSpring
actions. We were promised regularization in the Spring! Let's make it happen. From Charlottetown to Victoria, let's
#UniteAgainstRacism
& demand
#StatusforAll
.
RSVP now - show them we won't back down!🌱
Thrilled to announce what will certainly be a riveting conversation between three exceptional leaders and thinkers.
RSVP to hear
@policingblack
,
@HarshaWalia
&
@NazilaB1
discuss 20 years of struggle that led to the current opportunity for
#StatusforAll
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: It's time to push back against racism and immigrant scapegoating. It's time to take to the streets.
Join or organize actions across the country on September 14-15, 2024. Say no to division, say yes to
#StatusForAll
ACTION ALERT: PM
@JustinTrudeau
is meeting with Cabinet Ministers next week. Let's put
#StatusForAll
on the agenda to stop the abuse, and deaths.
Regularization could be decided on in a few weeks, or be delayed. Your actions matter.
We strongly oppose the unjust and unnecessary closure of Canada's borders to non-citizens, even while citizens without symptoms are allowed in. Families need to reunite, many need humanitarian assistance, and workers’ and students' livelihoods depend on being able to travel. 1/2
Precarious immigration status = Less rights at work, less access to healthcare, housing and education.
It's time for
@JustinTrudeau
to
#RegularizeEveryone
. Send an email to the PM ➡️
BREAKING! A new regularization program has been created to give status to **some** migrants! But 1.6 million+ people without permanent resident status still excluded. It's clear that organizing is working! Take action on August 23 for
#statusforALLL
:
RELEASE: Migrant farmworkers are still in crisis in
#BCFloods
. This video is of farmworkers rescued after being trapped for 5 hours in an attic as the water rose. Our member Sanctuary Health & allies are providing emergency support. But PM
@JustinTrudeau
must do more - 1/4
No to white supremacy. No to anti-Asian, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous & anti-Muslim hatred and racism in all its forms. We refuse to be divided. We are workers together for justice, dignity and status for all.
JOIN US:
#UniteAgainstRacism
#StatusforAll
20+ ACTIONS IN CANADA AND JAMAICA ON MARCH 20!!!
We are building a transnational migrant movement to
#UniteAgainstRacism
and demand
#StatusforAll
!
No matter where you are, you can be part of our movement. Find out more and RSVP now:
Vangie and her 6-year old daughter's deportation was stopped after
@MigranteAlberta
& the community mobilized!
"Undocumented migrants are people, we are not rags that will be disposed after being used"
Let's stop ALL deportations and win
#StatusforAll
:
Condos are sitting empty and unsold, but prices are still sky-high. The problem has always been developer greed, while im/migrants have been blamed as distraction.
🚫 Say No to Racism.
✊ Say Yes to Immigration Justice.
All out on Sep 14 & 15:
NO EXCLUSIONS! Support permanent resident status for all undocumented people, no matter how long they have lived in Canada.
#EqualityforAll
=
#StatusForAll
Call cabinet NOW:
Join us this holiday season in flooding the office of PM Trudeau with handwritten letters demanding status for all. December 16th will mark 2 years since PM Trudeau promised regularization - we will not keep waiting. We demand
#StatusforAll
now!
News coverage thread from actions across the country to
#UniteAgainstRacism
& demand
#StatusForAll
!
Ottawa: Demonstrators march in downtown Ottawa for migrants, refugees
We are facing an inequality crisis with housing, climate change and soaring bills. The hardest hit include migrants. Justice for all requires
#StatusForAll
.
On Sep 17, unite our movements. It's time.
Organize actions across the country.
2020 was a human rights catastrophe. Migrants were the frontline of
#COVID19
crisis and excluded from basic rights. 2020 was the year of our courage. Facing hunger and sickness, with you, we took action
In review:
#InternationalMigrantsDay
#StatusforAll