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Some emotional scenes appear near the end of Oliver Stone’s 2016 movie on Edward Snowden, depicting how penniless asylum seekers hid the American whistleblower and fugitive in their Hong Kong homes for two weeks.

Now those same people and their children are allegedly facing a campaign of intimidation, and the director is urging Canada to take them in as refugees.

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Stone wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this year to make the case for the Sri Lankan and Filipino nationals, he revealed in a recent interview.

They had opened their homes to Snowden in 2013 at the request of Canadian lawyer Robert Tibbo, and a Quebec group applied in January of last year to sponsor them as refugees. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is still considering the request.

“It would be so easy. It’s such a gigantic country and you’ve always had an immigrant-friendly policy,” said Stone, known for such films as Platoon and Wall Street — and various liberal causes. “Immigration makes you stronger. I think these people would be an addition to Canada, for sure.”