Daniel Garcia: Refugee Status

Canada Border Services Agency Dept: Last December, the Toronto high school student made headlines when he was unexpectedly arrested and sent to a Canada Border Services Agency detention centre. His application for refugee status had been denied, and Garcia, then 18, was to be deported to his native Mexico on New Year s Day, according to The Star. Two years before he came to Canada, Garcia was sleeping at a friend s house with his sister, Brenda, and her partner when somebody fired shots into the room and from the beginning, Daniel Garcia s story was all about where where he could stay, where he felt at home, where he would be safe. The fear for Garcia and his network of friends and advocates was that the homophobic thugs who shot and killed his lesbian sister s partner were waiting to kill him, too. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.