Migrant Rights Network

BREAKING: Migrant Students United! put up hundreds of posters in Minister of Immigration Marco Mendicino’s riding and on the windows of his constituency office in advance of our action next Tuesday Nov 24th to stop mass deportations! Our message was crystal clear: migrant students should not be punished for this pandemic. Thousands face deportation if their work permits are not made renewable immediately. We need real access to PR now. #LeaveNoOneBehind #MigrantStudents...United #RenewPGWP TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MASS DEPORTATIONS: 1 RALLY WITH US: Join our action in Toronto on Nov 24th, 12 PM, Minister Mendicino’s office (511 Lawrence Ave W): https://www.facebook.com/events/735291933751467 2 CALL MINISTER MENDICINO: Take action digitally by calling Minister Mendicino (script in comments), or tweet at him! 3 SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION: bit.ly/MigrantStudentsUnited 4SHARE THIS POST!

We are eight months into a pandemic and yet it feels like we are back at the beginning. Yet again, there are COVID-19 outbreaks affecting migrant workers on farms. Yet again, migrant and undocumented people are losing jobs as regions shut down. And still no action to save lives and livelihoods. Any day now, the federal government will release its ‘fiscal update’, a sort of mini-budget which will outline the government’s plan to ensure a just recovery. We already know their ...priorities: all but the Green Party this week voted against an NDP motion to create a 1% tax on individual wealth over $20 million. It is crucial that decision makers hear from you that there can be no just recovery without full and permanent immigration status for all. SIGN: https://migrantrights.ca/status-for-all/ CALL PM TRUDEAU: https://migrantrights.ca/callforstatus/

Immigrants without papers the Sans-Papiers have marched across France since 19 September and are arriving in Paris Saturday, October 17, to meet President Macron at l’Élysée, his official residence. They are demanding Papers for All, Close down detention Centres and Housing for All. Sans-Papiers collectives, 280 organisations including national unions and city councils have supported their movement in France, and so have numerous organisations in Europe and beyond. ... Outrageously, President Macron has refused to meet a Sans-Papiers delegation or even answer their requests, the police have so far forbidden them to reach l’Élysée. It is critical to support them. Like millions of other migrants including here in Canada, they demand the same rights, entitlements, and resources as everyone else. People have the right to reclaim the wealth that was stolen during slavery, colonialism and right up to the present day wealth that has enriched corporations, governments, institutions and the elite. While Sans-Papiers have been keeping society going during the pandemic, as carers, health workers, cleaners, agricultural workers, food deliverers and more, they have not been financially supported. Women Sans-Papiers pay an even higher price, doing more caring and survival work, facing more violence in the home and outside, and doing justice work protecting loved ones from racist violence and immigration controls. Follow Marche des solidarités on Facebook to learn more.

BREAKING!! Intimidated and fired for asserting his rights and speaking to the media, migrant farmworker Gabriel Flores refused to back down. With the help of other migrant workers, he took his multi-millionaire bosses at Scotlynn Farms to the labour board and won $24,000! But his case is just the tip of the iceberg. The immigration system is to blame for giving employers the tools they use to intimidate and punish workers. Join us in calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to Ensure Full & Permanent Immigration Status for All! SIGN THE PETITION: https://migrantrights.ca/status-for-all/

SHARE WIDELY! + June 20: Juan dies of COVID19. + June 20: Gabriel (Juan's roommate) holds the bosses responsible + June 21: Gabriel is fired for speaking out. + July, August, September: Millionaire Biddles call Gabriel a liar.... + Now for the FIRST TIME: Amador, Juan's nephew is speaking out about how Juan was denied medical care and testifying in support of Gabriel. Gabriel Flores: I am just a farm worker tired of what is happening to us. We have to leave our homes and families and cultures at home in Mexico to serve here in Canada and I think permanent residency is the least we are owed. See more

AVIS AUX MÉDIAS Votre indifférence nous tue!, les femmes sans statut refusent d’être encore ignorées par les politiques gouvernementales Quoi: Le comité de ...femmes de l’Association des travailleur-euse-s d’agence de placement (ATTAP) et leurs alliés se réunissent dans une conférence de presse pour exiger la régularisation, l’accès aux soins de santé et aux prestations de remplacement de revenu. Qui: Les personnes qui prendront la parole sont: Nadia, comité femme de l’ATTAP Zara, comité femme de l’ATTAP Nina, comité femme de l’ATTAP Chary, membre de Pinay-Québec Isabelle Brault, Travailleuse sociale de la clinique de Médecins du Monde Autres invités à confirmer Quand: Mardi, le 10 novembre à 10h Où: Par vidéoconférence. Lien zoom disponible sur demande Couverture médiatique demandée Possibilité d’entrevue Pour plus d’information et pour obtenir le lien, s’il vous plaît contacter : Noémie Beauvais (Centre des travailleur-euse-s immigrant-e-s) au 438-880-9696 ou au [email protected]

Who grows your food? Take a moment to think about migrant farmworkers as you shop for #Thanksgiving. Find out where your food comes from. Take action for #StatusforAll: https://migrantrights.ca/status-for-all/

Solidarity comrades!

At 3am this morning, in a rare overnight sitting, Parliament passed a law creating new income support benefits - CRB (Canada Response Benefits) - to replace the CERB. The CRB excludes migrants without a valid Social Insurance Number (SIN). Hundreds of thousands of migrants who have not been able to renew our SIN because of delays in processing our work and study permits - even our Permanent Residence applications - are shut out. Undocumented migrants living and working in th...is country for years without status have been denied vital income support. We are in the second wave of COVID-19, and yet again, immigration rules are being used to deny protections to migrants. While the income support law has effectively passed, there is still a solution for us: granting full and permanent immigration status to everyone in Canada, thus guaranteeing a valid SIN. Take action and add your name: https://migrantrights.ca/status-for-all/

Livestream from a secret location in Niagara Day of the Dead Altar for Status for All

We join Malaya Canada's call for justice! #StopTheKillingsPH #ActivismisnotTerrorism sign now: https://malaya.ca/open-letter/

WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyhKWBlXmzs&feature=youtu.be Migrants tear back the curtain on the injustices of Canada's migrant worker program in t...his W5 documentary. Justin Trudeau & Marco Mendicino - #StatusforAll is the only solution! Migrants are rising, join them: https://migrantrights.ca/status-for-all/ #CdnImm #CdnPoli

Under pressure from Fight for $15 & Fairness and many others including Jagmeet Singh - Justin Trudeau has expanded EI and Recovery Benefits. But migrants without valid Social Insurance Numbers are excluded! Thousands don't have a valid SIN because of delays in immigration processing of permits necessary to renew SIN. Thousands don't have a SIN because they are undocumented.... Call Now! COVID-19 does not discriminate, neither should emergency support!

Today at 7pm, CTV W5 will release this documentary we have been working on. It include our member Gabriel Flores who was fired for speaking to the media; Jesus ...Molina and Erika Zavala from Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture; and long-time ally Fay Faraday. Tune in. https://www.ctvnews.ca//pandemic-in-the-fields-the-harsh-r

"First, the government could make good on its throne speech language that when people choose Canada, help build Canada, and make sacrifices in support of Canada, we should make it easier for them to formally become Canadian by instituting a comprehensive regularization plan. That would include establishing pathways to permanent residence and citizenship for all migrant workers and people with precarious immigration status."

Mamadou is now facing deportation. Migrants are fighting for our rights and justice and being targeted. Follow: https://www.facebook.com/Solidarit%C3%A9-pour-Mamadou-103597324837725 to get updates.

We have updated our preliminary report on today's Throne Speech. Please read and share with migrants and allies. https://www.facebook.com/notes/migrant-rights-network/after-the-throne-speech-migrants-will-keep-fighting-for-statusforall/10101161636514102/?av=188312381502634&eav=Afb4_0o2bhjiogC7RaP_dZAJ7eE1zPiX4OE9W4pqfvzKL_6QlBr6P7hnplmWshr7rQE