Immigration And Refugee Dept: The allegation was made at an admissibility hearing for one of the crew members, a man who cooked on the ship and manned the diesel engine room and received free passage from a key smuggling agent in return for that work, the board was told, according to Calgary Herald. Under questioning, the man seemed to try to minimize his role on the ship, saying that he mostly stood around during his three-hour shifts, and occasionally helped pour oil into containers, fetch tools or call others for help when work needed to be done on the engine and among the 492 Tamil migrants who arrived in Canada aboard the MV Sun Sea last summer was a 12-man crew that played an "integral" role in helping to execute the large and sophisticated smuggling operation, the Immigration and Refugee Board was told Thursday. The Canada Border Services Agency is seeking to have the man -whose brother is alleged to be a key organizer of the operation -deported because he engaged in a transnational crime, namely people smuggling. As
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