Spring is coming, the snow will melt, let’s get ready. Mark your calendars for March 16-17, 2024, as we launch Migrant Spring! 
Even in spring, working people are too worried about paying our bills to stop and smell the flowers. And we are being divided, the richest few are blaming immigrants for rising costs. But migrants live here, we have deep roots, we grow and care for our communities and are excluded from basic rights. Together, this Migrant Spring, join us to unite against racism and win equality and permanent resident status for all. 
Attend Actions: Actions are confirmed in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver and more will be added soon. RSVP on this page.
Organize in Your Community: Organize an event in your own community. You can organize pickets at MP offices, letter-writing, forums and community gatherings. Register your event on this page or email us at [email protected] if you want to talk through ideas. 
Part of an organization? Endorse and support by clicking here. 
MIGRANT SPRING

• Immigration Minister Marc Miller promised to bring regularization to the Cabinet in the Spring. Let’s hold him to his word and ensure it means permanent resident status for all undocumented people, no exceptions. 
• The clock is ticking for migrant care worker programs expiring on June 17. Without replacement, thousands of racialized migrant women who take care of children, sick, and elderly face deportation or may become undocumented. Already, many are denied permanent residency because of unfair language testing and education accreditation requirements. This Spring, win justice for care workers.
• Landlords are raising our rents beyond reach, grocery monopolies are making it harder to put food on our tables, bad governments are privatizing healthcare and education. They are scapegoating immigrants because racism is a strategy to divide and distract us. This Spring, push back against xenophobia and hold those responsible accountable. 

Migrant Spring is about more than just one weekend of action—it’s the next the next step in our fight for equality, justice, #StatusforAll and #UniteAgainstRacism. Migrant Spring is a series of protests, educational activities and actions leading up to summer 2024, and beyond! 
This Migrant Spring, let’s reject division, poverty and inequality. Together, we will cultivate a future where everyone can thrive.

For more information visit:  https://migrantrights.ca
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The Home Child Care Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot Programs will expire on June 17, 2024! If you have not applied for permanent residence yet – you will be affected! 
Caregivers: Join the urgent online meeting on February 24, 2024 at 8pm in Ontario / 5pm in British Columbia / 6pm in Alberta to find out your options and what we need to do to make sure you and other caregivers still have options. 
Many caregivers cannot apply for permanent resident status because we are unable to get high language scores or get our education accredited. If the program closes, we may be on work permits forever, renewing them year after year, separated from our families. We will be in a crisis! 
But there is still time! We can make a change if we move together and quickly! 
Register for the meeting now to find out how we can change the rules and make sure all caregivers get permanent resident status. 
Please register here:
https://migrantrights.ca/ events/caregiverassembly/

Let us invite all care workers we know to register and attend an online Care Worker Assembly on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at  8pm in Ontario / 5pm in British Columbia / 6pm in Alberta  


This online Zoom assembly is for foreign care workers to talk about the expiring immigration caregiver program - the Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot - and their experiences under the program. 

So please help us reach and invite as many foreign care workers as possible, especially those who are still under the program and/or those who lost their immigration status because of the unfair requirements of the program. 

Why You Should Attend:

• Tell Your Story: The meeting will be a place for you to express your challenges and difficulties. We all have stories, and this is a chance to tell yours.
• Get Support: Learn what you can do to prepare for the program expiring. 
• Stay Informed: Get updates about what the government is planning and what we can do. 
• Make a Difference: When we act together and speak up, we can make the government give rights to all of us. Let’s make sure we all get permanent resident status. 

Let’s stand together and make our voices heard!
Please don’t forget to register here:
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https://migrantrights.ca/ events/caregiverassembly/