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Michelle Robidoux: War Resisters Support Campaign

Iraq Dept: Kimberly Rivera, a 30-yearold private who served three months in Iraq and came to Canada while on leave in 2007, has been ordered out of the country, said Michelle Robidoux, spokeswoman with the War Resisters Support Campaign, according to Vancouver Sun. Rivera, who has been living in Toronto with her partner and four children, could face jail time in the United States and the first female U.S. soldier to seek refuge in Canada rather than return to duty in Iraq is facing deportation, a group that advocates for her said on Thursday. "She developed an opposition to what was going on in Iraq based on her experience in Iraq," Robidoux said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.