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VIDEO: Inside Vancouver's Sanctuary City Movement

This short video is part of a Tyee series on the city's support for undocumented migrants.

David P Ball 10 Jul 2014TheTyee.ca

David P. Ball is staff reporter with The Tyee. Send him tips or comments by email, find him on Twitter @davidpball, or read his previous Tyee reporting here.

For the city's undocumented immigrants, fear of discovery lurks in emergency rooms, schools, the local bus.

This 12-minute video report accompanies a four-part Tyee series on sanctuary city for undocumented migrants, a policy which Vision-dominated city council is considering declaring.  [Tyee]

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