The family was jolted awake by loud banging at the front door.
Andrea Pardo Rodriguez, her husband Nelson Martinez Mora and their daughters emerged from their bedrooms Sunday morning, still in their pyjamas, and opened the door.
The couple and Valentina, 22, Camila, 26, and Jesica Martinez Pardo, 27, were shocked to see six people, dressed in plain clothes, in the hallway of their Hamilton apartment, Valentina later told CBC Hamilton in Spanish.
Pardo Rodriguez, 45, and Martinez Mora, 48, have been in Canada since 2021 as refugee claimants.
The six people, who the family assumed were agents with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), were let in and asked for the parents, said Jesica.
None of the six spoke Spanish and the Colombian family
