Quebec migrant worker who helped on COVID front line fears deportation
during the first wave is calling on the government to prevent him from being kicked out of the country. building in downtown Montreal Monday morning to demand justice for 41-year-old Mamadou Konaté, originally from Ivory Coast.He said he has worked several tough jobs in Quebec since he arrived six years ago, but perhaps none was more harrowing than cleaning rooms of COVID-infected patients at a long-term care home in the early days of the pandemic.
“He answered the call to help during COVID. He was cleaning up on the red floors during the first wave. He saw people die. He was one of the only ones supporting the old people at that time,” she told Global News. Konaté says he’s been detained multiple times and repeatedly called to anxiety-inducing meetings with government officials, as he was on Monday morning.
Istvanffy explained that a section of the Immigration Act stating that anyone who participated in a government being overthrown can’t get residency, is proving to be a major legal obstacle.“Canada is turning away people who are involved in any sort of armed struggle, even against dictators like Saddam Hussein, really terrible people,” Istvanffy said.
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