‘I have no more rights than a deer’
‘I have no more rights than a deer’
Living without any identification in Houston, Texas for more than three decades, Mexican immigrant Gerardo Perez, 34, is looking for asylum in Canada, but his tumultuous past is acting against him.
He crossed the Canadian border in British Columbia by foot on Sept. 8, 2021 seeking asylum and presented himself to an official. He has been a detainee at the B.C Immigration Holding Centre (IHC) in Surrey for almost a month. Desperate and feeling like his case was stalled, he decided to go on a week-long hunger strike.
“They don’t want to release me because they said that I could do in Canada the same that I did in the (U.S.), but I asked for asylum because I don’t want to live (in hiding) anymore. I want to get an ID and start over,” said Perez, a computer programmer, in an interview with NCM.
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