“Bye, Canada”: heart wrenching story about why one immigrant has to leave Canada

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

“Bye, Canada”: heart wrenching story about why one immigrant has to leave Canada

https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/bye-canada-im-going-back-to-where-i-came-from/

#Immigration #Canada

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@skinnylatte It's fucking heartbreaking.

[auxonic@ottawa.place]

@mayintoronto @skinnylatte just awful. The harm they’re doing to the country to appease racists or, worse, because they beleive in this garbage. And hurting all these people. People we need here. Ugh.

[julian@activitypub.space]

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

> “When migrants lose their status, they are not deported,” Harsha explains. “They become undocumented – forced to work below minimum wage, in even more precarious conditions. That doesn’t help the labour movement, or the working class.”

Is this true? I've never heard this before. Nobody's ever asked me for my citizenship status when I applied for a job, save for the tax form I fill out for income tax withholding.

To blame the Canadian government as a whole for the employers hiring workers under the table under minimum wage seems to be ... incorrect, to put it mildly. Not that it doesn't happen, but the government can't do anything direct about under-the-table work.