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Security Concerns: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: OTTAWA - The federal government is dismissing the notion that a terror suspect recently arrested in the United States entered from Canada. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "When we became aware of security concerns, he was back in Tunisia, and his study permit was not renewed," Kenney told a news conference. Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men accused of plotting a terror attack on a rail target, is led off a plane by RCMP officers at Buttonville Airport north of Toronto in April. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suggested Friday that the Tunisian-born man, who had been studying in Canada, could not actually have entered from here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.