No deportation hearing for Abdoul Abdi, but Halifax advocate says his future in Canada is still uncertain

The Toronto Star reports:

One of Abdoul Abdi’s Halifax supporters says the decision not to refer his case to a deportation hearing is a win for human rights, but not the end of the story, as “he’s not safe yet.”

The Canada Border Services Agency detained Abdi — who was never granted Canadian citizenship while growing up in foster care in Nova Scotia — after he served about five years in prison for multiple offences, including aggravated assault.


This past January, a delegate of the federal public safety minister ruled that proceedings should begin to deport Abdi, a former child refugee, to Somalia. Abdi’s mother is from Somalia, but he has never lived and was not born there.

On July 13, Federal Court of Canada Justice Ann Marie McDonald chose to send the matter back for “redetermination” on the grounds that the delegate’s decision did not take Abdi’s charter rights into consideration.

Halifax activist and academic El Jones has been advocating for Abdi throughout the drawn-out proceedings on his immigration status.

Canada struggles with "cultural diversity"........