Stop the Deportations! Solidarity with Amir Hodhod!

An emergency demonstration was held earlier today (Monday, April 3) outside the downtown Montreal offices of Immigration Canada and the Canadian Border Services Agency.


Amir Hodhod, a non-status Egyptian refugee, political dissident and writer -- and an active member of Solidarity Across Borders in Montreal -- will be deported this week. Elsewhere in the Montreal-area, in the past few days, long-time non-status migrant workers have been picked up by deportation agents and detained. In Toronto, non-status migrants have been rounded-up and deported in planes, while border agents profile and harass migrants on the streets and in shopping malls. Throughout the United States, "illegal" immigrants and their allies have organized massive and historic demonstrations against racist and xenophobic anti-immigrant laws. For more information: http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org

Photos by Tatiana Gomez and Jaggi Singh