Immigration: Country Hundreds

Children And Their Mothers Dept: More than 50 children and their mothers in Vancouver alone have come to the attention of the YWCA. Last year, 70 per cent of the women at one of its Vancouver transition houses were undocumented mothers with children, according to Vancouver Sun. The B.C. School Act requires that the child's parent be able to produce proof that they are legally living in Canada. Because his mother has no residency visa, schools require that she pay the equivalent of a foreign student's fee and across the country, hundreds and possibly thousands, of Canadian-born children are being denied access to the most basic services -a home, food, health care and schooling. They are being denied these necessities because their fathers abused their immigrant mothers, their mothers fled the relationship, and the fathers then reneged on promises to sponsor the women for permanent residency. Half of the women at that transition house are undocumented. A boy who should be in Grade 2 is among the Canadian-born children living there. He has never gone to school. As reported in the news.
@t residency visa, transition houses