El Salvador: Court Judge and Jose Figueroa

el salvador: There is no valid reason for this moot application to proceed to judgment, government lawyers argued in a court document, according to Brandon Sun. The respondents in the case are the federal attorney general, the ministers of both public safety and immigration, as well as the Canadian Border Services Agency. Lawyers representing the Canadian government urged a Federal Court judge in Vancouver on Wednesday to reject an application by Jose Figueroa to rescind an eight-year-old report linking him to a political group in El Salvador with alleged terrorist ties. Any debate around Figueroa inadmissibility has lost practical significance after Immigration Minister John McCallum brushed aside roadblocks to permanent resident status last December, on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, they said. Figueroa fled the country with his wife in 1997 after he began receiving death threats and came to Canada as a refugee. The report highlights Figueroa past membership in Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in El Salvador, the same group that brought in a new era of democracy when it was elected in 2009. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.