Marc Tessler: Canada Border Services Agency

Immigration And Refugee Board Dept: At a hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board on Feb. 11, a representative for the Canada Border Services Agency argued one of the Tamil migrants should be denied admissibility to Canada on security grounds because he was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, a group banned in Canada, according to Vancouver Sun. The board heard that the migrant -who can be identified only as B173 due to a publication ban -had fixed buses at a garage run by the LTTE and also helped a relative do repairs on motorcycles belonging members. The board also heard the migrant helped the LTTE dig bunkers and attended roadside dramas performed by LTTE members and the federal government has failed in its first attempt to have one of the 492 MV Sun Sea migrants removed from the country. But in a decision dated Feb. 28 and released to reporters late Sunday, IRB adjudicator Marc Tessler wrote that while the migrant lived and worked for a time in an LTTE-controlled area, the evidence did not show he had "crossed the line from mere sympathizer or supporter to member." As reported in the news.
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