Years later, some got into trouble with the law, and face deportation. Advocates say ‘it’s a story about systemic racism in various systems.”
Raised by his great-grandmother in the Dominican Republic, Fili has few memories of his parents or his sister and two brothers, who were both murdered.
After aging out of the child welfare system, still without proper immigration status, he had run-ins with the law and was slated for deportation to a country he barely remembered. “It really is a long story of one institution after another failing to provide him with the care that he needed,” Simpson said. “It’s a story about systemic racism in various systems.
Trying to restore or obtain one’s permanent resident status after being deemed inadmissible for criminality can be very difficult if not impossible, and may take years., which argued Canada would violate its international human rights obligations by sending the now adult man to one of the most dangerous countries in the world, where he has no family and does not know the language and culture.
The overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system and Black adults is well documented, including in a Under the current immigration system, an increasing number of permanent residents are arriving first with temporary status as temporary foreign workers and international students. For various reasons such as the costs of raising a family in Canada, they suffer prolonged separations from their spouses and children.
According to Fili’s court submissions to stay his most recent deportation scheduled for November, he was wrongfully issued an exclusion order by border officials upon his arrival by sea in 2002, which prevented him from seeking asylum in Canada. He also disputed officials’ claim that the then 14-year-old waived his rights to undergo a pre-removal risk assessment to remain here.
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