AKIPRESS.COM - An emotional goodbye Monday morning at the Calgary International Airport as a mother and daughter were deported back to Mongolia, reports 660 News.
Ariunaa Demberel and teenage Enkhjin arrived in the Canadian city in 2014, but pleas to stay in the country as refugees or under humanitarian and compassionate grounds since have been denied.
Demberel says she failed to grab many supporting documents she needed when she fled the country.
The pair are afraid of Demberel’s ex-husband, who she claims repeatedly beat and sexually assaulted her.
“I still can’t believe it,” Ariunaa told reporters.
She said she treasures the past two years she and her daughter had in Calgary.
“It was like fairytale for us, living with freedom. So, I’m so thankful for that,” she said, adding she’s grateful to her friends. “They were doing their best, you know, in order to help us to stay in Canada, so, I’m really thankful to them as well.”
Enkhjin was hoping until the end they would be able to stay.
“I just got an e-mail from our lawyer saying that the stay was refused and that’s the moment we start thinking about what do we have to do to survive there in order to be able to come back,” she said.
The pair plan to find somewhere to hide out in Mongolia now.“We love Canada, so, we will be still trying to come back,” Ariunaa added.