Immigrants have become the scapegoat for economic precarity.
This misdirected blame “takes the spotlight away from the affordability crisis, from the way the economy is structured, and the way that corporations are channeling wealth away from services and people” —Syed Hussan
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Dignidad Migrante is a grassroots group that advocates for migrants & advances legal cases against mistreatment
Its members are preparing a new mobile support van that can visit remote worksites. But they're also preparing for the effects of a new law that they say will make exploitation even worse
Exploitation, enabled by the threat of deportation & employers’ near-total control of workers’ daily lives
These are the stories told by people on the lower tier of a “two-tier society”: precarious migrants allowed to toil here but who lack the same access to rights as citizens &permanent residents
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Continuing our launch theme on immigration enforcement, photojournalist @mikegraeme.bsky.social delved deep into Bill C-12 (now passed into law) — and how migrants and rights organizations are responding
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Transit police are calling immigration on transit riders—and most of the time they aren't documenting it
Freedom-of-info docs indicate Transit Police calls to CBSA have risen. But in available 2024 data, 91% of calls didn't go into daily duty reports as required
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Last weekend, migrant workers from across BC shared stories in a small Victoria living room
Stories of farms where they say supervisors pursue sexual favours
Where a work injury can get you blacklisted
Where bosses won't pay, & threaten deportation if you object
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Bill C-12 brought Canada's most sweeping changes to immigration law in decades
It lets the government mass-cancel applications from whole nationalities & reduces migrants’ ability to dispute deportations
We spoke to migrant rights groups about the risks it poses
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“It's not just ICE in the US that are doing these kinds of raids and arresting people and deporting people and separating families.”
– Amanda Aziz, Migrant Workers Centre BC
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In 2024, Metro Vancouver transit cops’ immigration calls reached their highest in a decade. But not even a tenth of them went into daily duty reports as required
Last weekend, migrant workers from across BC shared stories in a small Victoria living room
Stories of farms where they say supervisors pursue sexual favours
Where a work injury can get you blacklisted
Where bosses won't pay, & threaten deportation if you object
www.defactomedia.ca/a-two-tier-s...
