Yukon NDP leader Liz Hanson made the following statement today regarding the Syrian refugee crisis:

There was barely a dry eye at the Whitehorse airport this morning as a crowd of the Rojas Martinez family’s supporters saw off father Sergio and his eldest son, who boarded a flight to Vancouver. The family faces deportation to Mexico as early as March 4th due to a federal deportation order. Sergio’s wife Linda remains, for now, in Whitehorse with their son Jonathan: a three-year-old Canadian citizen who requires specialized health care due to a skull defect that he likely will not receive if the deportation order is implemented.