Seidu Mohammed: Asylum Seekers and Canadian Press

seidu mohammed: I'm happy because if I go back to Ghana, I might lose all my life, according to CBC. But here I am, I just lost my fingers, but I'm still part of the society. Fingerless asylum seeker makes his case to stay in Canada Tuesday Iyal and his friend, Seidu Mohammed, walked through snowy farmers' fields to get to Manitoba, fearing deportation in the United States, where they had been living. I can do a lot of things that the people who have the fingers can do, Iyal said. John Woods/The Canadian Press Both men are from Ghana and say they feared for their lives if they were sent back home. Razak Iyal, one of two asylum seekers who walked across the Canada-U.S. border in December and lost his fingers and toes because of severe frostbite, is photographed as he enters his refugee hearing in Winnipeg on Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.