| Inside Vancouver BC's Sanctuary City Movement for Undocumented Immigrants David P. Ball - TheTyee.ca | |
| go to original July 9, 2014 |
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For the city's undocumented immigrants, fear of discovery lurks in emergency rooms, schools, the local bus. (The Tyee)
Vancouver is poised to become the newest among North America's self-declared "sanctuary cities," a stance intended to protect the safety of undocumented people within its borders.
What does it mean to become a sanctuary city? Who's pushing for the change and who thinks it's a bad idea? Where would lines shift between local and federal rules and jurisdictions? And beyond declaring Vancouver a sanctuary city, what other measures could prevent immigrants without status in our midst from suffering undue hardships?
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