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Refugee Status: Detention Centre and Case Today

refugee status: She's scheduled to be deported on March 27th and is currently in a detention centre in Laval, according to CTV. Several organizations, including Solidarity Across Borders and the Immigrant Workers Centre raised her case today. Lucy Francineth Granados has been living as an undocumented worker in Montreal for the last nine years. They're hoping to put pressure on the Federal government to stop the deportation. She made her way to Canada where she tried and failed to get refugee status in 2012. Granados left her native country in 2009 after the death of her husband. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.