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Children and Grandchildren: Haiti

Haiti: Marie Yvena Senatus-Prince said she has been waiting for her two children, two grandchildren and a son in-law from Haiti to join her in Canada since she applied to sponsor them in 2010, according to CBC. In her application she wrote that she feared the children and grandchildren were vulnerable to kidnapping and violence if they stayed in Haiti. $200K ransom demanded A Canadian refugee from Haiti is making a plea for help from Canadian authorities to bring her family to Canada after her 22-year-old daughter was kidnapped. Senatus-Prince was accepted as a refugee in 2010 on the basis that her family had been the victim of political attacks, including the kidnapping and murder of her brother in Haiti in 2006. Marie Yvena Senatus-Prince said her daughter went missing in Haiti on May 17. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.