One, here, at least, we let immigrant students attend school no matter what their status. School and health care (as in emergency care) is a right. Period. Children especially shouldn't suffer because of stupid legal bullshit.
Secondly, for all those talking bout the mother going back -- how many people reading this can just pack up and move to another country on a whim, and then pack up and move AGAIN? It's not easy. And the stepfather IS a citizen, this is his chosen family. It's not like an immigrant family with no ties to the country just up and went to Canada looking for a free education. These were people in love and I've seen it happen more than once, it's a whirlwind, and you get married and used to each other and get settled and then realize what a bind you put yourself in, especially when it comes to the daunting (and often expensive) legal immigration process.
My friend is married to an Englishman right now, and they have a baby together, and he isn't legal here -- even with a wife, child, and stepchildren. He has a life here, and he can't even go to the UK to visit his family because he would have to stay, which would require getting a new life there, and giving up his wife and child and stepchildren until they have enough to move all of them over there. Were they foolish? Yes. But it's just technical bullshit standing in the way.
The mother's 'home' is Canada now, with her husband and daughter. Going 'home' means saving up money to travel, get a place to live, furniture, a job, a legal mailing address to enroll her child in school, and so on.
(BTW I have lived in other countries and am a bit informed about the stupid hoops that decent people have to go through to get legal -- yet the criminals can slip through so easily. Ug.)
Is education compulsory in Canada? It is here, which is probably why any child can get one.
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Date: 2005-01-17 12:28 am (UTC)One, here, at least, we let immigrant students attend school no matter what their status. School and health care (as in emergency care) is a right. Period. Children especially shouldn't suffer because of stupid legal bullshit.
Secondly, for all those talking bout the mother going back -- how many people reading this can just pack up and move to another country on a whim, and then pack up and move AGAIN? It's not easy. And the stepfather IS a citizen, this is his chosen family. It's not like an immigrant family with no ties to the country just up and went to Canada looking for a free education. These were people in love and I've seen it happen more than once, it's a whirlwind, and you get married and used to each other and get settled and then realize what a bind you put yourself in, especially when it comes to the daunting (and often expensive) legal immigration process.
My friend is married to an Englishman right now, and they have a baby together, and he isn't legal here -- even with a wife, child, and stepchildren. He has a life here, and he can't even go to the UK to visit his family because he would have to stay, which would require getting a new life there, and giving up his wife and child and stepchildren until they have enough to move all of them over there. Were they foolish? Yes. But it's just technical bullshit standing in the way.
The mother's 'home' is Canada now, with her husband and daughter. Going 'home' means saving up money to travel, get a place to live, furniture, a job, a legal mailing address to enroll her child in school, and so on.
(BTW I have lived in other countries and am a bit informed about the stupid hoops that decent people have to go through to get legal -- yet the criminals can slip through so easily. Ug.)
Is education compulsory in Canada? It is here, which is probably why any child can get one.