Fin Donnelly and Mohammed Abdullah

: In a pleading letter obtained by the Star dated March 17, Kurdi begged Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander to allow them to come to Canada as refugees, according to Toronto Star. The letter was delivered by NDP MP Fin Donnelly. When Tima Kurdi tried to sponsor her brother Mohammed Kurdi and his family to come to Canada as refugees, she found herself mired in a Catch-22 of red tape and bureaucratize. While the brother is not named in the letter, an official in Donnelly office confirmed that Kurdi specified in an attachment to the letter that she and her family were sponsoring Mohammed and his family, but that the attachment does go over the family histories of both Mohammed and Abdullah. The official said Donnelly also followed up with Alexander in April, "seeking any opportunity" to bring the brothers and their families to Canada. The attachment tells of the family journey from Damascus to Istanbul, including an encounter with Syrian rebels. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.