The federal government has suspended the deportation of a mother and her three children living in Trois-Rivières, Que., shortly after the United Nations Human Rights Committee asked it to.
Arlyn Huilar and her three kids, who are six, nine and 11 years old, were scheduled to be deported to the Philippines Tuesday. Her husband and their father, David Ajibade, is still in Nigeria, where he was deported late last month.
Sunday, when Huilar and the children got home from attending church, they learned the Canada Border Services Agency had cancelled their deportation pending a ruling on whether they can become Canadian permanent residents on humanitarian grounds.
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