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Security Reasons: Security and Canada

security reasons: While the Immigration Department has concluded she was a known conduit of harmless information about that project and its Canadian personnel, the Canada Border Services Agency insists that she is inadmissible and must appear before an admissibility hearing on Thursday, according to Toronto Star. It is really difficult to see why she is being put through all of this or how she could be considered a risk to Canada's security either now or then. Elena Crenna is deemed inadmissible to Canada for security reasons for her contacts with Russia's intelligence and security agency, the FSB, while working as a translator for a Canadian housing development project 20 years ago. She was accepted as an American citizen after thorough security vetting. The housing project she allegedly spied on never had any official secrets. She is a registered nurse in California and her son served in the U.S. military, said her lawyer Seamus Murphy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.