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However a supporter of the bill, Senator Hassan Yussuff, said it was a response to an "urgent and immediate crisis", in comments reported by CBC.

"We heard this like 'chunk' noise and the whole roof of the wall came loose," he told CBC News.

“There is nothing more political,” he told CBC News in 2016.

"The nature of our relationship is so fraught right now that this case makes us all wonder, what about our relatives who are working in the States?" he said in a statement to CBC.

"I felt immense joy, it's indescribable," Araceli told Canadian public broadcaster CBC earlier in May, adding: "My daughters gave me so much strength."