[KBEAR]

Hey all,

Eugene Kim and her mother's deportation case has gotten some coverage
in the Star. I don't know what the Korean community has been doing to
support her. Please write to Minister Kenney and your MPs!!!

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Michelle


From: Bruce Lyne <bruce.lyne@sympatico.ca>
Date: April 23, 2009 957 AM GMT-04:00
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Cc: Ken Kroeker <ken.kroeker@tdsb.on.ca>
Subject: FW: Stop the deportation of Eugene Kim

Hi all,

We need to continue the effort to help Eugene Kim and her family. The
story from today's Star suggests that a decision is being considered,
but that the authority will lie between Jason Kenney at Immigration
and Peter Van Loan who is in charge of Canada Border Services.

I'm asking you to send the same letter you sent to Jason Kenney to
Peter Van Loan today. A sample letter is included below. You can
write your own, or cut and paste mine. Please add your name and
address to the letter to give it credibility. CC the letter to your
local MP as well.

Peter Van Loan's e-mail:

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To find your local MP:

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The mention in the press that they are going to make an announcement
on the deportation means the ministers are talking and considering a
stay. We need to give them more reason to do so.

Forward a copy of this appeal to any contacts you have who you think
will send a letter on to Parlaiment as well. Remember that every
e-mail they get counts as 10 to 20 concerned people in their minds.


Thanks to all,

Bruce Lyne


Here's the proposed letter: cut and paste this into a new e-mail.


Dear Minister Van Loan,

I'm writing to express my deep dismay at the decision by my Canadian
government to deport 8 year old Eugene Kim with her mother. As a
Canadian citizen, born and raised in this country, little Eugene
deserves the right to grow up here like every other Canadian child.

Our immigration system is clearly broken. The system takes forever to
decide cases. In the meantime, people put down roots and become part
of their communities, and children grow up thinking of themselves as
Canadian, only to find out years later that the Immigration Department
does not agree, and decrees in the most ruthless and inhumane manner
that it is time for this family to go. Why this family, when there are
literally tens of thousands like them across the country? There is no
fairness in such a system at all. Why does our system not take into
account the rights of children? You cannot make decisions about
parents separate from their children.

Please show some compassion. Please see how grossly unfair and
totally wrong it would be to punish 8 year old Eugene Kim by forcing
her to leave the only country she knows, where she is a citizen, and
should have the right to protection from such action. Grant her
mother permission to stay so Eugene can have the future she rightly
inherited when she was born. You have the power and the absolute
responsibility to do this.


Sincerely,

[angie88]

awwwww.. my heart goes out to them

Any updates??

[KVOLUTION]

looks like they had to go back..

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Apr 26, 2009 04:30 AM Kenyon Wallace Tess Kalinowski STAFF REPORTERS The disappointment was palpable. As the time of Eugene Kim's departure neared last night at Pearson International Airport, the hope of more than two dozen friends gathered for a chance to say a final goodbye to the 8-year-old girl and her mother, Kim Suk Yeung, slowly disappeared. "I feel sad and depressed. It's very disappointing," said Yuna Park, 11, a family friend. "I wanted to see her to say a very last goodbye, but it turns out the goodbye we said at home was the last one." Kim was deported to Seoul, South Korea, late last night after losing her refugee appeal before the Immigration and Refugee Board. She elected to take her Toronto-born daughter with her. Kim had come to Canada on a visitor's visa in 2000. She had been working in a dry cleaner's shop in the Davenport neighbourhood where Eugene was a Grade 2 student at Dovercourt Jr. Public School. As well-wishers gathered, officials checked in the Kims' baggage, and a Korean Air staffer accepted an armful of gifts provided by the group for the little girl. Earlier, Eugene and her mother were taken from a West Toronto detention centre before evening visiting hours began, even though their flight was not scheduled to leave until 11:50 p.m. No explanation was given. Earlier in the day, Eugene enjoyed one final hour of glorious spring weather – but even that was spent behind the detention centre's high barbed-wire fence. The little girl, who speaks five languages, wore a purple and pink sundress and a Korean Air satchel around her neck. Her mother said she was relieved Eugene had eaten some noodles for lunch, the first real food the child had consumed since entering the locked-down facility. Mother and daughter also said their goodbye to the mothers of Eugene's best friends at Dovercourt Jr. Public School, who came to the jail-like setting – in which visitors speak to detainees by phone behind a pane of glass – earlier yesterday. "This is our country's loss," said a tearful Kathleen Foley, who with sister Marie, tried Friday to persuade Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to reconsider Kim's case. The president of the Canadian branch of Defence for Children International confirmed to the Star yesterday there was nothing more that could be done to keep the Kims in Canada. "We had to establish if there was a risk of serious harm to the child and we haven't been able to do that, so there are not sufficient reasons to overturn a deportation order," said Agnes Samler. "The only thing we might have been able to do is an appeal on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, but we have not had a lot of success under the current system." Yesterday, though, Foley said she tried to stress to Eugene that she and her mother would be on to new adventures back in South Korea, where the little girl has never lived. Kim's parents and a brother live about 1 1/2 hours south of Seoul. "They need to be together," said Foley. "If that means they have to be together in Korea, then that's the way it needs to be."