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...surrounded taking severely disabled 48-year-old Sikh refugee, Laibar Singh, to his deportation flight. The crowd did what no other protest in North America had done before--using civil disobedience, it stopped deportation proceeding in its tracks.
The protest prompted a tense, hours-long standoff at the airport. Officers of the Canadian Border Services Agency announced, a bit nervously, that they were unwilling to wade into the crowd. And after eight hours, the cab--well, it just started backing up. Someone helped Singh climb out of the cab, and he was ushered back to the Sikh place of worship (a gurdwara), where he has sought sanctuary while awaiting a resolution of his legal challenge to stay in Canada.
Singh became an overnight celebrity, the subject of national and international headlines and live video feeds. Suddenly, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was beaming rarely--if ever--seen images around the country. Right there on TV was the fierce sight of Sikh priests who looked like my uncle now transformed into defiant activists. They stood alongside hottie rabble-rousers like Harsha Walia of the group No One Is Illegal, celebrating an honest-to-God...
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