A Cautionary Tale

[JimD]

A 19 year old colombiana is being booted out of Canada without her ten month old. Below the story from El Pais in Spanish and below that for those who don't speak the lingo the google translation link.
Una joven colombiana, cuya deportación ha sido ordenada por las autoridades canadienses, espera ansiosa la decisión de un tribunal para saber si podrá llevarse a Colombia a su bebé de 10 semanas cuya custodia ha sido solicitada por el padre.
Jessica Aristizabal, de 19 años, junto con su madre, hermana y tía, tenía previsto ser deportada el próximo 2 de enero después de que las autoridades canadienses rechazaron su solicitud de refugio en el país norteamericano.
 Pero Jessica dijo a Efe que la disputa legal por la custodia de su hijo, Jonathan, de 10 semanas de edad, con el padre del bebé, Daniel Ricardo Velasquez, de 21 años de edad, ha dejado la orden de deportación en suspenso al menos hasta el 6 de enero, cuando está prevista una vista judicial.
 "Nos dijeron que la deportación era el día 2, pero lo detuvieron ahora por lo de la Corte", dijo Jessica.
 
Velasquez, que tiene la ciudadanía canadiense, ha solicitado la custodia de Jonathan a los tribunales argumentando que es mejor para el bebé el permanecer en Canadá ante la inminente deportación de su madre.
 
El abogado de Velasquez señaló en su escrito ante el juez que "cree que sería lo mejor para el niño que él tenga la exclusiva custodia".
 
En caso de que el juez decida conceder la custodia de Jonathan a Velasquez, Jessica perderá toda la esperanza de ver de nuevo a su hijo.
 
"Me preocupa mucho la deportación pero lo que quiero ahorita es tener a mi hijo, que no me lo quiten. Esto es lo que yo anhelo", aseguró Jessica.
 
"No es justo de porque no sea canadiense me vayan a quitar el bebé", añadió.
 
La familia Aristizabal llegó a Canadá a través de Estados Unidos en 2008. Jessica dijo a EFE que la familia huyó de la localidad colombiana de Pereira, en Risaralda, después de que las Farc asesinaron al hermano de su madre que trabajaba para el Gobierno colombiano.
 
"Mi mamá y mi tía tenían mucho miedo de que les fuera a pasar algo y huyeron. Pero Canadá dijo que no había suficientes evidencias (para justificar la concesión de refugio a la familia) y por eso nos van a deportar", explicó la joven colombiana.
 
"Si nos deportan, no sé. Mi mamá tiene mucho miedo de ir a Colombia", continuó.
 
Desde que llegaron a Canadá, las cuatro mujeres han estado trabajando y no han tenido ningún problema con la Justicia canadiense. La propia Jessica trabajó hasta el último mes de su embarazo.
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[whitey]

More info here from a major newspaper in Toronto:

http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1102188

[Researcher]

 So what's the "cautionary message" here  stay away from Canada?


      Researcher

[whitey]

We have many, many Colombians coming here to Canada and claiming refugee status.  Immediate welfare, free health care, free English classes and bus transportation, and many other services for years as the claim works its way through the system.

Two or three years ago Uribe came up on a state visit, probably as part of free trade talks (I don't remember the details now), but he emphasized how much more secure Colombia is now and how there are many fraudulent refugee claims.  Since then, the Canadian gov't has been cracking down on Colombian refugee claims, and many are being refused and deported (still takes years).  A couple of my friends were deported in just the last few months.

[Researcher]

    Hey whitey where were they deported to the US?


                           

    Researcher

[whitey]

Careful there Researcher or I will cut off your supply of good beer, comedians, fresh water, and tasty Alberta Tar Sands oil!

They were deported back to Bogota ...

[Researcher]

Careful there Researcher or I will cut off your supply of good beer, comedians, fresh water, and tasty Alberta Tar Sands oil!

They were deported back to Bogota ...

      I figured the US would have taken them in and gave them jobs picking fruit!  I know of a Colombian man who was caught recently for being in the US illegally. They found out he had been deported twice already. He married a lady that is here legally and now he will be allowed to stay! Our government is nothing but a bunch of hosers!

       Researcher

[CeeTeeEnn]

Ha! I bet the majority of Colombians in the UK arrived by this very route - demanding (yes - demanding) their right to asylum under the terms of a Geneva Convention from 1951 concerning political refugees.

I did some unofficial research once and was informed by word of mouth that at one point there were networks of "Mr Fixits" active in the Vale and parts of the Zona Cafeteria offering solutions to any would-be UK-bound asylum seeker. This conveyor belt was supposedly stopped supposedly around 10 years ago when Colombia was put on a "white list" of countries from where claims for Political Asylum would not be considered by default (all LA countries were infact included on this list.) However, words such as "horse" "bolted" "locking" "stable" and "door" spring to mind.

Despite this, the political asylum route is still one open to abuse by more intrepid parties. From what I know, claims of persecution on the grounds of sexual orientation still provide grounds on which to have asylum cases heard. There was a news report not far back describing how lesbians facing "persecution" in the caribbean were being granted asylum here in the UK. It's great to think this country is now portraying itself as a lighthouse to attract gays, lesbians, bis, TVs, maricones and various other wonderful deviants the world over... it makes me proud.

[Jeff S]

Careful there Researcher or I will cut off your supply of good beer, comedians, fresh water, and tasty Alberta Tar Sands oil!

They were deported back to Bogota ...

Good beer?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_5w_35Y6ns