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Pusuma family facing deportation to Hungary

In 2009, after an attack by neo-Nazis, Jozsef Pusuma and his family left Europe and arrived in Canada as refugee claimants. Now, facing deportation back to Hungary, the Roma family have taken sanctuary in a church in Toronto....
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The Current27:27Pusuma family facing deportation to Hungary - June 04, 2014
In 2009, after an attack by neo-Nazis, Jozsef Pusuma and his family left Europe and arrived in Canada as refugee claimants. Now, facing deportation back to Hungary, the Roma family have taken sanctuary in a church in Toronto.

Hungary's April parliamentary elections have actually made things worse for Roma and other minorities living in the country. Jobbik, the far-right party, is now the third largest in the National Assembly.

These are very worrying developments for Jozsef Pusuma and his wife, Timea Daroczi. Jozsef says he saw intolerance up close doing volunteer work investigating hate crimes for an NGO in Hungary. But the family's refugee claim was denied in 2011.

Four people had baseball bats and would like to kill me...My family almost died.Jozsef Pusuma

The immigration lawyer who represented them at the time faces a hearing at the Law Society of Upper Canada, following unproven complaints about his handling of their claim, and those of other refugees.

We caught up with the Pusuma family yesterday in the Toronto church that they now call home.

And to give us more insight on this case, we were joined by Andrew Brouwer, the Pusuma family's current lawyer.

We did request an interview with the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander. He was not available. His office added that since "there is ongoing litigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."

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This segment was produced by The Current's Lara O'Brien and Howard Goldenthal.

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