Guilty: Muslim Family in Canada Convicted in Honor Killings
RE: DEPORTATION OF SHAFIA 3 (sorry, information not from the Minister of Imm. but from an immigration lawyer and former Canadian immigration officer)
EXCERPT FROM: THE NATIONAL POST. January 29, 2012/revised January 30, 2012
Once the Shafias complete their prison sentences, they are likely to be deported to Afghanistan, according to a lawyer and former Canadian immigration officer.
Raj Sharma, who practices in a large Calgary law firm that specializes in immigration cases, said the Canadian government temporarily suspends removals to some countries where there are natural disasters or war that put people at risk, but those provisions don’t apply to the Shafias.
“They would be removed to Afghanistan,” Sharma said, in a telephone interview from Calgary. “The temporary suspension of removals doesn’t help them.”
He pointed to a section of the Immigration Act that provides that anyone who is convicted of a serious crime is not subject to the temporary suspensions.
“We deport people to Sudan and Somalia and other hellholes including Haiti and we would deport to Afghanistan as well,” said Sharma, who also is an advocate of tough punishment for honour crimes.
