Family living in Montreal fights deportation to Mexico
Mendez-Reyes family wants to defer immigration officials’ decision
CBC News Posted: Dec 27, 2012 4:29 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 27, 2012 8:51 PM ET

A family that has been living in Montreal for four years has learned it will be deported to Mexico on Jan. 19 despite efforts to stay.

Marisol Mendez said she’s terrified of returning to Mexico after settling in Montreal.

“We are a good family,” she said, sobbing. “We try to have a good family to give a good example.”

Kimberly Rivera, an American soldier who moved to Canada to avoid the Iraq war, has been deported to the U.S.

Iraq war resister deported from Canada, arrested at U.S. border
CTV News Channel: Deporting war resisters

Jesse McLaren, a spokesperson for the War Resisters Campaign, talks about the outpouring of support for American war resister Kim Rivera in Canada.

CTVNews.ca Staff 
Published Thursday, Sep. 20, 2012 7:14AM EDT
Last Updated Friday, Sep. 21, 2012 10:59AM EDT

Kimberly Rivera, an American soldier who moved to Canada to avoid the Iraq war, has been deported to the U.S.

The mother of four presented herself at the Canada-U.S. border in Gananoque, Ont. on Thursday, where she was arrested and transferred to U.S. military custody.

“Kimberly now awaits punishment for refusing to return to Iraq, a conflict which Kimberly and Canada determined was wrong,” the group War Resisters Support Campaign said in a statement.

Kimberly Rivera, 30, served in Iraq as a U.S. Army private in 2006 before coming to Canada. (War Resistors Support Campaign)

Female war resister loses fight to stay in Canada
Mother of four sought refuge after serving in Iraq

The Associated Press Posted: Aug 30, 2012 10:33 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2012 4:47 PM ET
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Kimberly Rivera, 30, served in Iraq as a U.S. Army private in 2006 before coming to Canada. (War Resistors Support Campaign)

The first female soldier to flee the U.S. military for Canada to avoid the war in Iraq has been ordered deported, a spokeswoman for the War Resisters Support Campaign said Thursday.

Michelle Robidoux said that Citizenship and Immigration Canada has ordered Kimberly Rivera to leave the country by Sept. 20.

Husband of slain Laval woman has criminal record
By WILLIAM MARSDEN/THE GAZETTE August 27, 2012 4:38 PM

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MONTREAL – The husband of the 32-year-old woman shot to death in the garage of her Laval home Sunday morning has committed numerous criminal offences, including drug trafficking and uttering death threats, and since 2006 has been fighting deportation orders.

Police have refused to release the name of the husband or the wife, but land registry records show that the home where the slaying took place is in the name of Lida Phon and her husband, Ziad Ziade, a Lebanese national, also 32.

Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo talks to media at Dundas St. and River St. in Toronto on Sunday, October 11, 2011.
Credits: Dave Thomas/Toronto Sun/QMI Agency

Toronto anti-violence activist to be deported despite NDP plea
4:14 pm, August 18th, 2012

 KEVIN CONNOR | QMI AGENCY
TORONTO – Pleas for a delay in a deportation order for a Toronto anti-violence activist have not been answered.

Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo – who has spent the last five years helping families of gun violence – is scheduled to be deported to Nigeria on Aug. 24 after being arrested on Friday.

Mike Sullivan, NDP MP for York South/Weston, has written to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews asking to delay the deportation.

“She honestly and rationally believes she will suffer harm or death in Nigeria as a journalist if she is returned. That fear is now heightened by recent tweets from unknown sources attacking her. These tweets have now been reported in Nigerian newspapers,” Sullivan said in the letter.