(OTTAWA, August 28, 2013) – The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) has asked The Honourable Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, to restore born and raised Canadian Deepan Budlakoti’s status and end deportation proceedings against him.
Mr. Budlakoti was born in Ottawa, has lived his entire life in Canada, and all his family are Canadian citizens and reside in Canada. He is under a strict curfew and is not allowed to work, as he faces a deportation order to India, a country he has never lived in, and which is refusing to accept him.
OCLA says that the decision to remove Mr. Budlakoti’s status and make him a stateless person threatens the civil liberties of all Canadians and suggests that Canada’s laws are being used to exile a young Canadian man who has already paid for his errors, in the Canadian justice system.
The OCLA’s letter is available at:https://ocla.ca/justice-for-deepan-budlakoti-letter-to-minister-of-immigration/
About the Ontario Civil Liberties Association
OCLA is an organization formed to defend civil liberties at a time when fundamental freedoms are subjected to a systemic erosion in all spheres of social life. OCLA opposes institutional decisions that remove from the individual his or her personal liberty or exclude the individual from participation in the democratic functions of society.
Contact:
Joseph Hickey
Executive Director
Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) https://www.ocla.ca
613-252-6148 (c)
joseph.hickey@ocla.ca
