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About 30 members of Montreal’s Haitian community demonstrated outside Immigration Canada offices on Monday to denounce a federal government decision to resume deportations to their homeland and to Zimbabwe.

The decision to lift the moratorium means about 3,200 Haitians and 300 Zimbabweans living without status in Canada risk being deported unless they apply for permanent residency on humanitarian grounds by June 1. Montreal’s Maison d’Haïti is helping hundreds of people file their applications, but doesn’t have resources to help everyone.

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The Canadian government had upheld a moratorium for Zimbabweans since 2002 and for Haitians since 2004 following unrest in those countries.

Much of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was levelled by an earthquake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people.