An Indian man whose wife is an accepted refugee in Canada is facing deportation with the couple’s five-year-old son in what lawyers say is a troubling new practice of separating the families of people with protected status.

Ravi Chauhan and his young son are set to be deported Monday, leaving his wife, who is the child’s mother, behind in Canada without the possibility of seeing her family for what could be years while they await permanent residency.

Lawyers and advocates say Chauhan’s case reflects a broader change in which border officials are increasingly deporting the spouses and children of protected persons who were previously allowed to remain while applications were processed.

  • maplesagaBanned from community
    34·
    2 days ago

    Its also cruel to bring people into a vast housing shortage.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
      32·
      1 day ago

      We’ve already debates this you and I. By the way, Canada’s population just fell for the first time in history. Did that fix the crisis?

      • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I haven’t had this debate with you.

        Do you think it’s ok to import temporary foreign workers en masse when we can’t support them?

        We are basically complicit in human trafficking. And as a bonus this makes it almost impossible for youth to find work.

        Facebook sux but go lurk the indians in canada groups. Let me know how much fun you think they are having.

        • acargitz@lemmy.ca
          1·
          9 hours ago

          EDIT: I thought I was responding to maplesaga. So in the spoilers below is what I wrote in the first version of this comment. I’m leaving it here because it links to sources that debunk the myth that immigrants are to blame for the housing crisis.

          spoiler

          We debated the root causes of housing unaffordability about a month ago: https://lemmy.ca/comment/21841706 You called my arguments …gaslighting.

          Now apparently immigrants are also to blame for unemployment. What else are you going to pile on us?

          And save me the crocodile tears about “trafficking”. Obviously I’m not supporting the kind of precarious status the temporary foreign worker program stamps on people’s lives. Immigrants should have full status with full rights to organize, unionize with all other workers. But you found that …worrying in that same discussion.

          Stop fucking blaming immigrants. The housing crisis, the affordability crisis, youth unemployment, all those are caused by a rigged economic system that fucks over indigenous, settler and immigrant workers for the benefit of a hundred rich families. Income inequality is at an old time record in this country and nativism is a very convenient distraction that serves them just perfect.

          So, after the edit, here is what I’m going to say to you, rabber:

          Save me the crocodile tears about “trafficking”. Obviously I’m not supporting the kind of precarious status the temporary foreign worker program stamps on people’s lives. Immigrants should have full status with full rights to organize, unionize with all other workers.

          Stop fucking blaming immigrants. The housing crisis, the affordability crisis, youth unemployment, all those are caused by a rigged economic system that fucks over indigenous, settler and immigrant workers for the benefit of a hundred rich families. Income inequality is at an old time record in this country and nativism is a very convenient distraction that serves them just perfect.

      • maplesagaBanned from community
        3·
        1 day ago

        Seems to be helping, yes. I just think it needs to be around 4-5x income as it was historically.