Security Risks Still In Canada

Ms. Prest said the 3,000 figure offers a "snapshot" in time and may change from day to day. And those 3,000 are still in Canada for reasons that vary widely. They may be serving prison sentences, have cases pending before the courts, be needed as Crown witnesses, have their warrants suspended because of a moratorium on deportations to a troubled country, or be applying for special consideration to stay due to dangerous conditions in their homelands. The border services agency is reviewing all outstanding warrants to make sure they are still valid, Ms. Prest said.The Supreme Court of Canada declared last June that Mr. Mugesera incited genocide in Rwanda by delivering a hate-mongering speech to Hutu militants before the 1994 massacre of more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis. A decade after deportation proceedings began and nine months after the top court ruled, the Quebec City resident is still in Canada awaiting a pre-removal risk assessment. Officials at Citizenship and Immigration Canada could allow him to stay if they deem his security at risk in his homeland. Mr. Mohammad neglected to mention he was convicted in the fatal hijacking of an Israeli airliner when he arrived in Canada in 1987. Once his past as a terrorist for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine caught up with him a year later, Canadian officials initiated deportation proceedings on the grounds he had entered the country under false pretenses. But 18 years on, Mr. Mohammad is still here. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=9f7e0cc0-b77a-4fac-8992-f8025dea8670&p=1

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