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Laval Immigration Detention Center
In Montreal, migrants and their allies gathered at the Centre de prevention de l’immigration, the Laval immigration detention center, on November 10-11, to stand in solidarity with all those detained as part of the growing efforts to fortify borders.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 977
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Detention Center
Governments have been developing new strategies to fortify their borders. From new immigration policies that make it more difficult to enter the country to the arming of border guards, new symbolic and physical fences are being erected.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 330
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Status for All
The action began with a rally at Atwater Parc in downtown Montreal. Speakers denounced the Quebec government agenda to bring in 55,000 new immigrants when many are already in the country rotting in detention or forced to live underground.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 231
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No to Detentions
"These are people fleeing war, persecution, and misery. They’re criminalized for who they are and not for something that they’ve done. This is inhumane treatment that creates a two-tiered justice system.”
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 233
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No One is Illegal
In Canada, immigration detention can occur when a migrant is unable to provide identity documents or when a border guard or immigration official claims suspicion of a flight risk or believes the person to be a potential danger to the public.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 235
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Rally
Unlike detentions in criminal proceedings, migrants are held without charge for indefinite periods of time, detained not for an act that they’ve committed, but for who they are: migrants.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 245
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While the rally gathered momemtum before the departure to the Laval Detention Center, a lunch was served courtesy of the People's Potato.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 214
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Handing Out Flyers
The rally was attended by over one hundred individuals, inlcuding families. Here, a child hands out flyers for the upcoming march against new security certificate legislation, which allows for the indefinite detention of non-citizens on secret evidence.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 176
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Marching Band Against Borders
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 211
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Towards the Bus
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 182
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Boarding the Bus
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 192
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Fortress North AmeriKa
A line of police cars awaited protesters as they arrived at the detention center. They guarded one of the many apartheid walls that have been erected to control migration.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 180
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No Border Camp Banner
Protesters unravelled a large banner that could be seen from the detention center. Speeches in multiple languages ensued over the sound system and detainees soon began calling in.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 168
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No Borders
This banner against borders, prisons, and deportations was sent by friends and allies from Quebec City. There is a growing movement proclaiming that "no one is illegal".
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 175
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Les manifestants ont scandé le slogan "Ni frontières, ni prisons, arrêtons les déportations!"
Date: 07/13/2007
Views: 167
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No Border Camp Presente!
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 205
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Devant le Centre de prévention de l'immigration, les manifestant se sont opposé a la criminalisation de la migration.
Date: 07/13/2007
Views: 186
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Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 176
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Solidarity with Migrants
Detainees that called-in spoke about their detention conditions and upcoming detention review hearings.
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 171
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General Assembly
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 205
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This man from Chad spoke of his lived experience at the detention center.
Date: 11/12/2007
Views: 155
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Dinner is served
Date: 07/13/2007
Views: 158
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CampingOut
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 190
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Staying warm...
Date: 07/13/2007
Views: 157
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No Photography
Date: 03/30/2007
Views: 166
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As night falls, over 100 people are still locked up inside. Their crime? Trying to make a better life for themselves...
Date: 07/13/2007
Views: 203
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