How much would you give up to get a university education? For most of us, four years of work, study, investment and anxiety are the costs we are willing to pay to secure the benefits and opportunities of a university degree. But is a university degree worth so much to you that you would allow yourself to be confined in a church basement, cut off from physical contact with friends and family for almost a year of your life all while under constant threat of arrest and deportation? Most of us would balk at such an ordeal, but for two University of Regina students facing deportation orders for their honest mistake of working off-campus at a local Wal-Mart, this is exactly the extent they are willing to go advance their education.

Iraq war resister Kim Rivera climbed into a friend’s car in the late afternoon on Wednesday September 19, 2012, and drove away from Toronto. She had to present herself at the U.S. border to follow through on the deportation order placed against her. Her family crossed the border separately to avoid traumatizing her children by seeing their mom taken into custody.

I wanted to post this open letter from the Let Tony Stay campaign. Please note that the campaign has asked me not to reveal his last name to protect family members in Nigeria. His image has been blocked out to protect his identity from similar retaliation. Please read the open letter and find out how you can help

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wife fighting Canada to save husband from torture

Toronto, Ontario - May 25th, 2012 - Tony fled his small, African village just over 3 years ago because he was being hunted. The first night they came to his house under the cover of darkness, it became clear that their motives were malevolent.