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Photo above: About 150 supporters came out to support José Figueroa, a Langley man who has taken sanctuary at Walnut Grove Lutheran Church, at a rally on Saturday. Right: Dani Kurylyk, a student doing a school project about Figueroa came out to support the father of three, who has been ordered deported to his native El Salvador.

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At times chanting “We are José”, a crowd estimated at 150 people gathered on Saturday for a rally to support Jose Figueroa, a 16year resident of Canada claiming sanctuary at Walnut Grove Lutheran Church, in an attempt to avoid deportation to El Salvador. Figueroa, a slight soft-spoken man said, “the community is caring for family values. One of the reasons that I took sanctuary was because it was the threat of me being separated from my family.” Figueroa faces separation from his wife and their three Canadian-born children because the Canadian government believes his past membership in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) makes him a security threat to Canada.

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Langley City Councillors Rosemary Wal- repressed [by the Canadian government],” lace and David Hall, Pastors Karl Keller and thanked everyone for their support and Vic Cornish, UBC politmade a plea that peoical science professor ple “raise their voices” to Maxwell Cameron and “speak for us [his famiWilson Munoz of the ly].” Vancouver civic party Despite the governCoalition of Progresment he fled from in sive Voters (COPE) were El Salvador no longer among the speakers holding power, he fears who addressed the ralfor his safety if forced to ly in support of Jose return. Figueroa. “You would think that Figueroa himself adEl Salvador would be JOSé FIGUEROA dressed the crowd from a safe place for me to the relative safety of be returned, but I don’t the church doorway. think that is the case. It His voice breaking with was even worse than beemotion, he began by stating he was “being fore. There are gangs and there are political

This is putting the family in greater danger because of the political unrest.

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issues that are going on,” he said. “The guys that were targeting me in the 90s, the reason I was looking for refugee protection, they would have already forgotten about me, but because of this situation I was forced to make everything public. I cannot hide my face. Anybody in Canada they know this is José, [who] was a member of the FMLN. The same is happening in El Salvador, so this is putting the family in greater danger because of the political unrest,” Figueroa said. He has now spent more than two weeks sheltered inside the Walnut Grove Lutheran Church hoping the Canadian government will listen to the calls of his supporters to overturn his deportation order. He maintains that staff members of Canada Border Services Agency have been watching the church since he took refuge there.

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