Deportation Order: Canada and Figueroa

deportation order: Before he fled to Canada in 1997 to escape death threats, Figueroa was a volunteer for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in El Salvador, according to Guelph Mercury. The group brought in a new era of democracy when it was voted into power in 2009. Jose Figueroa will be in court Wednesday in Vancouver asking it to rescind an eight-year-old report that said he was inadmissible to Canada due to his past membership in a political organization. He also said Monday he wants a federal deportation order quashed. If there is justice in this country, the Canada Border Services Agency should be found accountable for the harm that they have done to me, to my family, Figueroa told a news conference outside the University of Victoria law faculty building. Immigration Minister John McCallum granted a ministerial exemption last December that allowed Figueroa to leave the Walnut Grove Lutheran Church in Langley. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.