They All Come To America
Unless you've been living under a rock somewhere you are probably familiar with Neil Diamond. There was a time when my wife bought every single LP that he put out.
By far my favourite song he has ever sung has to be
"AMERICA"
Indeed a wonderful song with heartfelt lyrics and when sung with Diamond's passion, a song that brings tears to even the most conservative American.
BUT - this post is not here to celebrate Neil Diamond or to inject any nationalism into American viewers.
Not only to they come to America, they also come to Canada and that is where the problem starts.
The father of an 11-year-old boy who drowned while trying to save a friend is facing deportation because of suspected links to a terrorist group, court documents show.
Muralitharan Nadarajah was a member of the Tamil Tigers terrorist group in his native Sri Lanka, according to filings with the Federal Court of Canada.
Nadarajah was ordered deported from Canada in 2004, but the reservation was cancelled after a Federal Court of Justice granted a stay in his deportation.
Justice Sandra Simpson ruled at the time that Nadarajah had the right to challenge the government's assertion that it was unlikely he would be tortured if deported to his native Sri Lanka.
In an interview today with the Toronto Star at his Scarborough home, Nadarajah denied any suggestion that he was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
That is "a totally false accusation," he said.
Nadarajah, who said he was a private math tutor in his native Sri Lanka, said he was supportive of the aspirations of the Tamil people but does not believe in violence.
"I'm not a Tiger, I was not a Tiger," he said. "In my whole life, I have never had any military training, I've never held any weapons and I've never participated in any violent activity."
Nadarajah said he and his family fled to Switzerland in the mid-1980s after he was jailed by the Sri Lankan government for about 31 months and tortured because he failed to provide the Sri Lankan military with information about the Tigers.
Nadarajah, who has no status in the country today, lives in a home in northwestern Scarborough, which he said he rents.
He is currently out of custody on a $150,000 bond, $100,000 of which is in the form of a property lien provided by a friend from his village in Sri Lanka and another $50,000 is a cash bond, again provided by friends.
Nadarajah said he has made ends meet by borrowing heavily and living off the generosity of friends and relatives.
Three of his children, including Birunthan, who died on the weekend in a drowning accident, were born in Switzerland and carry no passport because Switzerland does not grant citizenship based on birth, he said.
Nadarajah is currently in a pre-removal risk assessment. His family is being held up in bureaucratic limbo because three of his children have no travel documents.
He and his wife have to report every month to immigration authorities to show they are still in the country.
He has two daughters in addition to the two sons still living.
His wife arrived in 1997 from Switzerland in Canada and he arrived in 1998.
Court documents say that Nadarajah "orchestrated fundraising and propaganda activities in support of the LTTE."
He left Switzerland after he had been charged, tried and acquitted of being a member of the criminal organization. He made his way to France and then, using a false identity, landed in Canada.
When he arrived in Montreal, he immediately applied to be a refugee under a fake name, but a month later after an RCMP raid on his home, his identity was discovered and he was arrested.
Nadarajah was ordered out of Canada on June 18, 2002.
Last year, the government said in court documents that Nadarajah came to Canada to organize the Tamil Tigers in this country. His contention that he would be subject to torture if removed to his native Sri Lanka was readmitted for reassessment.
Nadarajah says he has been working on the side with a Sri Lankan company that publishes a business directory.
On Sunday, Nadarajah's 11-year-old son plunged through the frozen surface of a Scarborough pond while trying to save a friend.
The above story from
The Toronto Star is very sad and I'm sure you feel as I do for the grieving parents. To lose a son must be a very difficult thing to deal with.
They All Come To Canada
Canada is bursting with illegals who forge documents, lie whereever and whenever they have to and just plain 'beat the system' put in place by our government. North America is full of people that have immigrated from here and there and, for the most part, their entry into Canada was done legally.
The above story of the Nadarajah family is just a drop in the bucket of what is happening in Canada with regard its immigration policy.
In my years working in Ontario Corrections I encountered too many inmates arrested and held for being in Canada illegally. To a very large degree you can blame most of the gun problems happening in Toronto to a small group of illegals from the Carribean Islands. Don't take that as a slam against blacks from the Islands. I have the outmost of respect for any peace-loving individual white, black or green that comes to Canada to contribute to our society. My problem is with the small group that would rather shoot you than talk to you when met on a dark street.
Canada has to close its border to illegals coming into the country. America's Homeland Security will tell you that the way to get at America is through Canada. Evidence of that was the recent exclusion of a Soviet spy who lived here for ten years before being found out.
America and Canada are at war with terror since 9/11 - it's time our Federal Government did something with our Immigration Policy. Check that - its time is long overdue!
