‘Daddy, let’s go to Canada’: The fearful Haitian march from Trump to Canada
CORNWALL, Ont. — Their lives changed in an instant that July day when the government letter arrived telling them that her work permit was not being renewed.
For five years, Sheila Francois lived, worked and paid her taxes in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to help support her three teenaged children. When she and husband, Frank, read that letter — no renewal and no explanation — they knew their life in the United States was over.
“If you have status and you see that immigration stops it, right away you think one thing — deportations,” says 44-year-old Frank Francois.
“The minute we saw that happen and as we are watching the news, we saw Canada taking people, we said, ‘we might as well take a chance’.”