Despite prayers and impassioned pleas to government officials, a Toronto-based preacher and her two young daughters are being sent back to Kenya.
Early Wednesday morning, Rev. Rosalind Wanyeki and her two children, six-year-old Pearl and nine-year-old Joylene, attended an immigration hearing at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) office at Mississauga’s International Centre, where a judge denied the woman’s request to defer their deportation order.
Wanyeki was seeking to push back her family’s deportation from Canada until a decision was reached on their application for permanent residency here along with a risk assessment, which to date have all been denied, but are being appealed.
The family was originally scheduled to be removed from the country earlier this year; however, a deferral was granted until June to allow the girls to finish the school year.
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Immigration Hearing
On Aug. 6, Rev. Rosalind Wanyeki and her two children, six-year-old Pearl and nine-year-old Joylene, attended an immigration hearing at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) office at Mississauga’s International Centre, where a judge denied the woman’s request to defer their deportation order to Kenya.
As a result of Wednesday’s hearing, an order was issued for their deportation on Thursday. Wanyeki and her children are being detained by CBSA until their departure.
Documents obtained by CTV News show tickets that have been booked for the family on Ethiopian Airlines. Their flight to Nairobi via Addis Ababa is scheduled to leave Pearson International Airport at 10:45 a.m.