Sanctuary Health: December 2014

Friday, 19 December 2014

Sanctuary Health in the Vancouver Sun

Representatives of Sanctuary Health have been in the Vancouver Sun twice in recent weeks:

Injured migrants fear being reported to CBSA by hospitals (December 17, 2014)

A report on how people without legal status in Canada are increasingly afraid to go to hospitals for fear of being reported to the Canada Border Services Agency.

Border Services ramping up arrests, advocates say (December 11, 2014)

Comments from community groups including Sanctuary Health on the rise of arrests from Border Services.

About Sanctuary Health

You can contact us by e-mail at sanctuaryhealthvancouver@gmail.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SanctuaryHealth.

To learn more about the Sanctuary City movement, please visit: http://www.sanctuarycityvan.com/

Sanctuary Health is a grassroots community group. We deploy direct action, movement-building, community-engagement, and direct support strategies to advocate for access to services for all regardless of immigration status or documentation. We are committed to building cross-sectoral alliances of mutual support to advance the migrant-justice movement on unceded Coast Salish territories.