Immigration Minister Chris Alexander: Adel Benhmuda

Adel Benhmuda: For five years, the Canadian government has jerked Adel Benhmuda and his family around. It refused them refugee status in Canada; it deported them back to Libya, where he was jailed and tortured; then it dithered on whether to allow them back into this country in a way condemned as unfair by a Federal Court judge, according to The Star. This saga has gone on far too long. Immigration Minister Chris Alexander should tell his officials immediately to waive this ridiculous and insulting fee. Aside from the fact that an almost penniless refugee has little chance of coming up with $6,000, it amounts to charging him for the injustice perpetrated on his family. Its like executing someone and then going to the family and demanding that they pay for the bullet, says their lawyer, Andrew Brouwer and Talk about adding insult to injury. Finally, in January, federal immigration officials decided that the family could return to Canada after all from their place of exile in Malta. But now, in a cruel twist, they have imposed a condition. As reported by s Sandro Contenta , the family has been told it must pay $6,000 the cost to the government of deporting them to Libya in 2008. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.