Mar 19

Migrants and Allies to Mobilize on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release

Migrants and Allies to Mobilize on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Communities Denounce Bill C-12 and Escalating Attacks on Migrants Across Québec and Canada

What: Demonstration

When: Saturday March 21st, 3pm

Where: Complexe Guy-Favreau, 200 René-Lévesque Ouest

Montreal, March 21 — The Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC), alongside migrant-led organizations, unions, and community allies, will hold a demonstration on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to denounce escalating attacks on migrants and refugees and to demand justice, dignity, and full rights for all. The mobilization comes in response to growing scapegoating of migrants for crises in housing and public services, driven by austerity and government policies at both the provincial and federal levels. Participants will call for full regularization, an end to deportations, and the dismantling of policies that criminalize and exploit migrant communities.

At the federal level, the passage of Bill C-12 marks a major escalation in anti-migrant policy. Community organizations warn the legislation will restrict access to asylum and expand state powers in ways that will push more migrants into precarity and fear of detention and deportation. In response, a broad coalition — including the Immigrant Workers Centre, Solidarity Across Borders, Comité d’action Parc-Extension, Migrante Québec, Clinique Justice Migrante, and union allies such as the Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain–CSN — is mobilizing to resist these measures. Organizers say the message is clear: migrants and their allies will continue to organize and fight back until justice, status, and dignity for all are achieved.

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