ENDORSED BY: Global Balkans Network; Freedom Fight / Pokret za Slobodu; No One is Illegal - Montreal; No One is Illegal - Toronto; No One is Illegal - Vancouver; Solidarity Across Borders (SAB)

Please take a moment to sign the following petition:  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/xxx and join the Facebook group to let the H. family stay in Canada.

Please also consider sending an email to Jason Kenney, Minister of Immigration asking that the family be granted status on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. 

The petition was started by six year old AH's kindergarden classmates to prevent the deportation of the H. family back to Kosovo. The family's other child, three year old Canadian-born daughter J. is in need of expert medical care to treat a sensitive heart condition. In the meantime, the father has been detained by Canadian immigration authorities since March 11th on the pretext that he constitutes a 'flight risk' if a deportation ruling is ordered. This leaves IH on her own to care for both her children with the looming threat of deportation.

S was an activist with Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), which led one of the Balkans' longest, mass-based and non-violent civil resistance campaigns for greater autonomy, self-determination and fundamental human-rights for Albanians living in Kosovo. The family fled in 2004, when their home was shot up. S. and other LDK activists have been prosecuted by the US armed and trained Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) since NATO forces occupied Kosovo in June 1999.

It is not safe for the H. family to return to Kosovo under the present circumstances.

The Conservative government continues to target migrants and deny refugee status to those in need. Deportations, preemptive detentions, workplace raids, temporary workers and coercion are becoming the hallmarks of Canadian immigration policy. Demand S’s immediate release! Demand that the H. family be granted status on Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds!