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Photo by antonio molinari on Unsplash We are pleased to give friends of COMPASS a voice to share their thoughts relating to our work. This post and the previous one comprise a short series written by one of our interns. Rekiat explores the importance of engaging an accurate, compassionate, and respectful migration narrative. She callsRead more

Photo by Frank Alarcon on Unsplash We are pleased to give friends of COMPASS a voice to share their thoughts relating to our work. This post and the next one comprise a short series written by one of our interns. Rekiat explores the importance of engaging an accurate, compassionate, and respectful migration narrative. She callsRead more

Photo by Tim Wildsmith on Unsplash Canada’s system for deciding asylum claims typically focuses on the person’s credibility, their ability to prove their identity, the evidence they can provide to support their claim of persecution, the severity of the threats they are facing, and the conditions of their country in general. It is such aRead more

Photo by Kevin Bückert on Unsplash Over the past few days, I have read of people who have legal, though unresolved, immigration standing being drawn out of churches by a buzz on their ankle bracelet and then arrested by ICE (Immigration and Custom Enforcement in the U.S.). I have read about arrest quotas that endRead more