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Alvaro Orozco: Asylum Claim

Same Sex Relationship Dept: Alvaro Orozco, who was to be deported Thursday, was released from immigration detention Wednesday after Citizenship and Immigration Canada issued him permanent resident status on humanitarian grounds, according to The Star. The immigration papers came six years after the runaway, now 25, came to Toronto in 2005, via the United States, to flee persecution and domestic abuse in Nicaragua due to his sexual orientation and a gay artist from Nicaragua, whose asylum claim was rejected because he had not been in a same-sex relationship, has been granted a reprieve by immigration officials. I am free now, Orozco said after his release from the Rexdale holding centre. I feel safe. I finally belong somewhere. There are no more struggles. I do not have to hide anymore. As reported in the news.
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