This paper examines migrant justice organizing in Quebec, the ‘Status for All’ movement, and the challenges and opportunities of regularization programs in Canada’s federated immigration framework. Regularization programs grant permanent residency to undocumented individuals but often impose strict eligibility criteria and can trigger border clampdowns that create new precarities (McDonald, 2009). The COVID-19 pandemic and the visibility of migrant essential workers revitalized Canada’s decades-old campaign for ‘Status for All,’ leading to the federal ‘Guardian Angels’ program for asylum-seekers in healthcare. However, negotiations between the federal Liberals and Quebec’s nationalist, immigration-restrictionist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) ultimately narrowed its scope. While migrant justice organizers often advocate regularization as part of broader struggles against citizenship privilege, border regimes, or imperial and settler colonial sovereignty (Walia, 2013; Sharma, 2019), these programs remain embedded in a liberal framework that reinforces state control through selective inclusion. Further, the political debates surrounding regularization shape national and subnational membership (De Genova, 2013), with ambivalent consequences for future organizing. In Canada’s asymmetrically federated system, Quebec controls most immigrant selection and has consultation powers over special programs, adding complexity to regularization struggles as competing federal and provincial immigration agendas introduce new barriers. This research examines how federalism has shaped the terrain for regularization, considering when and where programs have been taken up, sidelined, or co-opted. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, archival research, and textual analysis, I explore how regularization efforts have unfolded in Quebec since 1971, focusing on recent campaigns alongside past programs in 1973, 1981, and 2002. I argue that organizing in a federated context is fraught with cooptation and backlash, as responsibility shifts between levels of government. Yet, despite these challenges, Quebec’s migrant justice movements demonstrate remarkable strategic adaptability, forcing reckonings in the politics of belonging.