{"id":2368,"date":"2022-03-26T01:21:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2022-03-26T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T01:23:41","slug":"we-had-to-escape-growing-number-of-somalis-face-possible-deportation-over-false-documents-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"‘We had to escape’: Growing number of Somalis face possible deportation over false documents, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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‘We had to escape’: Growing number of Somalis face possible deportation over false documents, advocates say<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Scamming and lying are endemic among many self-styled “refugees”.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaif Ali is only 23, but she’s spent the last five years putting her life back\u00a0together\u00a0\u2014 starting with escaping war in Somalia,\u00a0to putting her faith in a smuggler to find safety, to landing in Canada and learning English, studying nursing and becoming a front-line health-care worker.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the life she’s built could soon fall apart \u2014 again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s because the Canadian government now claims Ali is not, in fact, Somali. And she’s not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali, a Toronto resident, told CBC News she escaped Somalia with her younger sister after her father and older sister were targeted and killed. The two paid a smuggler, who arranged for them to flee with fake Kenyan passports. It’s a choice she says she was forced to make in order to get to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Nobody just wakes up one day and they’re like, ‘Oh, I’m running away from the country,'” Ali said. “We’re escaping in a short period of time. Something happens and, within a month or two months, you’re in hiding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘We had to escape’: Growing number of Somalis face possible deportation over false documents, advocates say [Scamming and lying are endemic among many self-styled “refugees”.] Kaif Ali is only 23, but she’s spent the last five years putting her life back\u00a0together\u00a0\u2014 starting with escaping war in Somalia,\u00a0to putting her faith in a smuggler to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1702,1703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}